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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015

Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

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Health shocks and the long-lasting change in health behaviors : evidence from Mexico

Agüero, Jorge M.; Beleche, Trinidad - 2016

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Suffer for the faith? : parental religiosity and children's health

Popova, Olga - 2016

This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non … does not affect children's height-for-age, but increases children's body mass index and subjective health. Father …'s religiosity has a stronger salutary effect than mother's religiosity. In fatherless families, children's health is more strongly …

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Early-life exposure to income inequality and adolescent health and well-being : evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study

Elgar, Frank J.; Currie, Candace - 2016

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Cash, conditions, and child development : experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Honduras

López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 19 (2019) 2, pp. 169-196

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The long-term effects of childhood exposure to the earned income tax credit on health outcomes

Braga, Breno; Blavin, Fredric; Gangopadhyaya, Anuj - 2019

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a central component of the U.S. safety net, benefiting about 27 million families. Using variation in the federal and state EITC, this paper evaluates the long-term impact of EITC exposure during childhood on the health of young adults. We find that an...

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How do parents respond to regulation of sugary drinks in child care? : evidence from California

Hu, Jiafei; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yuan, Haishan - 2019

To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child … care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … more juice for their children after child cares limit their juice provision, but such offsetting behavior disappears after …

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