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substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects … on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …
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-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …
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model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
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model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317622
understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income …
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We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
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We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European … spring and summer (compared to autumn). At given age, they have developed about 3.5 percent more health deficits. The bulk of …
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waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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