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This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510011
migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …
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This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the … summer school and fall holiday across the 16 federal states in Germany. Leveraging a difference-in-differences design with … effect on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 among children or any spill-over effect on older generations. We also do not find any …
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return to school at full capacity after the summer holidays increased infections among children or adults. Instead, we find …This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the … summer and fall school holidays across the 16 federal states in Germany using a differencein-differences design with …
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The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature …. In this study we examine the relationship between Kindergarten attendance and the 7th grade school placement of children … citizens and children's later school placement. However, for children in immigrant households the reverse is true: later school …
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support the skill development of children and thus its labor force’s skills of tomorrow. This thesis aims to provide knowledge …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that postponing the school …
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