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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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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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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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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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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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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments. Statistical estimation of wage functions … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …
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