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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010
turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288964
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Is there an Income Gradient in Child Health? It depends whom you ask
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010
determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently … and while the sign of the income gradient is in the same direction across respondents, systematic differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518887
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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504483
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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494786
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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199855
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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308440
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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war : evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984792
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War and stature : growing up during the Nigerian civil war
Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523516
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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War and Stature : Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Akresh, Richard - 2011
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117195