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Schooling, Fertility, and Married Female Labor Supply: What Role for Health?

Cinyabuguma, Matthias; Lord, Bill; Viauroux, Christelle - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2009

changes in fertility, child schooling and lifetime married female labor supply as a consequence of exogenous changes in health … child mortality lead to a modest decline in human capital and increase in fertility, with little effect on married female … labor force involvement. In sharp contrast, reductions in morbidity are found to lower fertility and increase education. The …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

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Children at Risk : Infant and Child Health in Central Asia

Buckley, Cynthia - 2010

Using Demographic and Health Surveys, government statistics, and field observations I examine trends in infant and child health in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Health indicators (anemia and marked low weight for age) for the population under the age of 3 are examined...

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Birth in times of war : an investigation of health, mortality and social class using historical clinical records

Geiger, Nadine; Wichert, Sebastian - 2019

While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early-life and prenatal conditions, little is known about the short-term effects. We estimate the short-term impact of the onset of WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of...

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Girls and boys : economic crisis, fertility, and birth outcomes

Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2018

We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...

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Does early-life health enhance growth? : evidence from Spain

Blázquez-Fernández, C.; Cantarero-Prieto, D.; Pérez, … - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 860-864

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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth

Fogel, Robert W. - 2000

This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more. The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of...

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Beyond Barker : infant mortality at birth and ischaemic heart disease in older age

Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; Van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...

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Light pollution, sleep deprivation, and infant health at birth

Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan; Yang, Muzhe - 2018

This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm births. Specifically, increased nighttime brightness,...

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Survival to Adulthood and the Growth Drag of Pollution

Schaefer, Andreas - 2016

Environmental pollution adversely affects children's probability to survive to adulthood, reduces thus parental expenditures on child quality and increases the number of births necessary to achieve a desired family size. We argue that this mechanism will be intensified by economic inequality...

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