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, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …
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phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
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inadequately protected, supervised or directed by responsible adults’’. Children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or … unwilling to care for them may become street children. Parents, and sometimes grandparents, are legally responsible for … supporting children, but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become children of …
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Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … the child's birth. The number of such children increased markedly from 1995 to 2010 with a total of 750 children for the …
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We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
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We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095637
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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We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement.Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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