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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war : evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984792
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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War : Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, José - 2010
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141420
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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742361
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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888356
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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083845
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Why Do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321320
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Why do Indian children work, and is it bad for them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2000
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415593
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252665
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … often exceed famine effects by a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2014
may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462244