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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168222
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019
weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159221
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831231
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831282
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481551
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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254466
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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020
assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237115
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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, … - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529408
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433879