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Skills are an important predictor of labour, education, and wellbeing outcomes. Understanding the origins of skills formation is important for reducing future inequalities. This paper analyses the effect of shocks in-utero on human capital outcomes in childhood and adolescence in India....
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Skills are an important predictor of labour, education, and wellbeing outcomes. Understanding the origins of skills formation is important for reducing future inequalities. This paper analyses the effect of shocks in-utero on human capital outcomes in childhood and adolescence in India....
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
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Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … Robustheit der elterlichen Präferenzen als Hauptdeterminanten der Größenunterschiede zwischen Kinder... …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …
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age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …
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among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …
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