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Growing in the Womb : The Effect of Seismic Activity on Fetal Growth
Álvarez-Aranda, Rocío - 2019
We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...
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Growing in the womb : the effect of seismic activity on fetal growth
Álvarez, Rocío; Chirkova, Serafima; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2018
We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914067
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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth
Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments … parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents …
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Children's health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth
Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 25 (2021) 3, pp. 651-668
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Education, human capital and economic growth : empirical research on 55 countries and regions : (1960-2009)
Wang, Ying; Liu, Shasha - In: Theoretical economics letters 6 (2016) 2, pp. 347-355
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Does early-life health enhance growth? : evidence from Spain
Blázquez-Fernández, C.; Cantarero-Prieto, D.; Pérez, … - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 860-864
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From Malthus to Modern Growth : Child Labor, Schooling and Human Capital
Vogel, Edgar - 2014
economic development. Due to uncertainty about child survival, parents have a precautionary demand for children. Rising … labor can be an obstacle to development since it lowers the incentives of parents to educate children. Furthermore, the …
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Geography, parental investment, and comparative economic Development
Grall, Lothar - 2016
This paper suggests differential parental investment as a theoretical link between geographical conditions and comparative economic development, possibly accounting for the reversal of fortune in the process of development with respect to land productivity. The paper develops an evolutionary...
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Essays in international economics and development
Bluedorn, John Christopher - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384120
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259