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This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
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This paper deals with the data of dormitory students in National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College to demonstrate the existence of peer effects in academic performance. The data have unique advantages to avoid the difficulties of the self-selection problem and reflection problem. The...
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earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …
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We use individual data from SAGE and RLMS surveys to infer whether education has an effect on the health of Russian … is used to assess the former effect which implies profound changes in understanding individual's health and how health … care system works. The latter way means changes in the health-related behaviour, estimates for which are deduced by OLS …
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the extent to which differences in self-reported health across genders and education levels can be explained by the use of … health domains across the four countries, but to varying degrees. On the other hand, I find that the health disparities …
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Despite extensive research on nonmarket returns to education, direct and spillover effects on mental health are widely … health. Given ambiguous theoretical implications, I explore potential mechanisms empirically. Using Survey on Health, Ageing … improve elderly-specific health care provision. …
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also …
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effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child …
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This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
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This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043