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Does work during childhood affect the health of Guatemalan adults?
Rosati, Furio Camillo; Straub, Roland - In: Review of Economics of the Household 5 (2007) 1, pp. 83-94
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The Inter-Generational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities in Guatemala
Calderon, Ma. Cecilia - 2012
a rich data set from rural Guatemala that can account for such unobservable factors. A 10 percent increase in maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114645
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The inter-generational transmission of cognitive abilities in Guatemala
Calderón, María Cecilia; Hoddinott, John - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010217625
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¿Caminos distintos y destinos iguales? : análisis de la convergencia en patrones de uso de internet entre diferentes gurpos etarios
Barrantes, Roxana; Vargas, Eduardo - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887991
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Does Work During Childhood Affect Adult’s Health? An Analysis for Guatemala
Rosati, Furio C.; Straub, Roland - 2011
The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling for unobserved household specific characteristics. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185223
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The Inter-Generational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities in Guatemala
Calderon, Maria Cecilia; Hoddinott, John - 2012
from rural Guatemala that can account for such unobservable factors. We find that a 10 percent increase in maternal Raven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192793
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Violence in Guatemala Pushes Adults and Children to Seek Work in Mexico
Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - 2022
This article estimates the impact of violence on emigration crossings from Guatemala to Mexico as final destination … during 2009-2017. To identify causal effects, we use as instruments the variation in deforestation in Guatemala, and the … seizing of cocaine in Colombia. We argue that criminal organizations deforest land in Guatemala, fueling violence and leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256241
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The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans
Cawley, John H.; Moran, John R.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2008
"This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise identical retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. We exploit this natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726936
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Planned fertility and family background : a quantile regression for counts analysis
Miranda, Alfonso - In: Journal of population economics 21 (2008) 1, pp. 67-81
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597020
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Causes and consequences of early life health
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina H. - 2010
"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker of health in...
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