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forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly …
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data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …
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fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment …
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We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear … evidence of a healthy worker selection effect. We find little evidence of a contemporaneous impact of child work on health but …
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rich individual data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro …-cyclical. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health which varies from strongly adverse for the … which can explain both the overall and heterogenous findings: maternal stress, health behaviour, and prenatal care. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840771
data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863790
random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility …This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of … children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most …
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children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn …
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children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814782
's health at birth or long-term health and labor market outcomes. Subsequent maternal health and fertility are also unaffected …Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993689