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Estimating inter-generational returns to medical care : new evidence from at-risk newborns
Clarke, Damian; Lillo Bustos, Nicolás; Tapia Schythe, … - 2022
Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have considerable returns in terms of survival and later life outcomes. We seek to determine to what degree such treatments are transmitted across generations. We follow three generations of linked micro-data from...
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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana
Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021
An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...
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Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents
Bhardwaj, Atul - 2015
Worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders. Mental disorders, if remain untreated, can impose enormous and lifelong burden to the individual, family and society. Yet, a large proportion of affected children do not receive treatment owing to poor accessibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010346
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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168
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Cost‑effectiveness of cell‑free DNA in maternal blood testing for prenatal detection of trisomy 21, 18 and 13 : a systematic review
García-Pérez, Lidia; Linertová, Renata; … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 19 (2018) 7, pp. 979-991
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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
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Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
Berthelon, Matias - 2018
trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
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Toxic Exposure in America : Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes
Agarwal, Nikhil - 2009
We examine the effect of toxic exposure on U.S. infant and fetal mortality rates between 1989 and 2002 from toxic pollution released by facilities reporting to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). Unlike previous studies, we control for toxic pollution from mobile sources and from non-TRI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718109
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Maternal stress during pregnancy and early childhood development
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Sánchez, Rafael - 2018
trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843862
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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health
Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016
meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502545