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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154501
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307391
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124469
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125060
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children’s willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181010
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337549
skills as well as health and household characteristics. We find that higher cognitive skills are associated with more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357265
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494786
This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during … early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and … find that children's capabilities strongly interact and build on each other: health is an important determinant of early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978384
Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments. We examine the implications of one form of biological adaptation - immune system learning - for human capital formation. Using two case studies, where interventions to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130925