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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior : evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244239
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Sibling spillovers
Black, Sandra E.; Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Figlio, … - 2017
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610897
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Some microeconometric evidence on the relationship between health and income
Adeline, Amélie; Delattre, Eric - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 27, pp. 1-18
This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The … contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the … identification of different mechanisms in income-related health inequalities. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763291
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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
generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252665
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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462133
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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … percent greater life-time earnings. In addition, we find the effect to be greater for pupils that were exposed at earlier ages … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776044
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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity : evidence from German neighborhoods
Dang, Rui - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390537
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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity : evidence from German neighborhoods
Dang, Rui - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397080