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health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have … therapy and take anti-depressant medication following the shock. These children have lower test scores and school enrollment … on test scores is no different for children in high- and low-income families, but the families react differently to the …
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quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload …
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nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0–17 years old. The sample was composed of … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the...
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One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016353
This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …
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This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …
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This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636311
, including early health, skills, and the parents' and child's own attitudes towards education, as well as outcomes related to …
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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