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Something in the air? : pollution, allergens and children's cognitive functioning

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not fully distinguished between contemporaneous and long-run effects. This paper contributes on both of...

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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016

United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on …

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Childhood homelessness and adult employment : the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015

This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...

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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills

Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020

. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals' life trajectories in terms of health, education, and earnings, the …

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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Fading out effect or long lasting nudge? : the impact of a conditional cash transfer program beyond starting the school year in Argentina

Edo, María; Marchionni, Mariana - 2018

We estimate the impact on education outcomes of the Universal Child Allowance (AUH), a massive conditional cash … school year, but concentrated on boys in upper-secondary school. In this paper we study the effects on other education … in education. Nevertheless, the evidence also indicates that there is room for improvements in the design of the program …

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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Does parental absence harm children's education? : evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Vu, Linh H. - 2022

have a better chance of enrolling at all levels of education than those from single-parent families. Within single … critical role of mothers in children's education. …

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The Impact of Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education Among Guatemalan Adults

Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere; … - 2012

Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms … of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing …

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Early life determinants of cognitive ability : a comparative study on Madagascar and Senegal

Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen - 2018

of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and …

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