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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...

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Early Life Adversity, Biological Adaptation, and Human Capital

Fink, Günther; Venkataramani, Atheendar; Zanolini, Arianna - 2017

Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments. We examine the implications of one form of biological adaptation - immune system learning - for human capital formation. Using two case studies, where interventions to reduce...

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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020

We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...

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Why medical innovation is valuable : health, human capital, and the labor market

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 3, pp. 671-725

I develop a dynamic framework to assess the value of pharmaceutical innovation, taking explicit account of how side effects and the labor market affect the demand for medical treatment. In the framework, forward-looking patients do not simply maximize underlying health or longevity. Rather, they...

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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors - such as the number...

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2017

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2019

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deﬁcits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child...

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Health and Skill Formation in Early Childhood

Biroli, Pietro - 2016

This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and cognitive skills, as well as the role of parental...

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015

In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition...

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Intergeneration Human Capital Transmission and Poverty Traps

Camacho, Carmen; Estevan, Fernanda - 2023

since it impacts human capital transmission. When poor parents cannot afford to invest in health, poverty traps may arise as … whether households fall into the poverty trap. We demonstrate that high-quality schools ensure that successive generations …. We calibrate our model for Brazil and Chile and show that our model predicts that a poverty trap will arise in Brazil but …

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