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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education

Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education

Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295118

Aggregate Shocks, Poor Households and Children : Transmission Channels and Policy Responses

Mendoza, Ronald U. - 2015

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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees

Baez, Javier E. - 2008

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...

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Families as roommates: Changes in US household size from 1850 to 2000

Salcedo, Alejandrina; Schoellman, Todd; Tertilt, Michèle - 2010

The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically - from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are more income elastic than public goods, as we...

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Survival to Adulthood and the Growth Drag of Pollution

Schaefer, Andreas - 2016

cleaner and more polluted areas during the course of economic development. …

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The nutrition transition and indicators of child malnutrition

Kimenju, Simon C.; Qaim, Matin - 2014

We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have...

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Less is More? : the child quantity-quality trade-off in early 20th century England and Wales'

Fernihough, Alan - 2017

Whilst the child quantity-quality (QQ) model is theoretically well-established, the empirical literature offers only partial support. Motivated by the limited causal empirical evidence in both historic and contemporary societies, this study examines the relationship connecting fertility and...

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Families as roommates : changes in U.S. household size from 1850 to 2000

Salcedo, Alejandrina; Schoellman, Todd; Tertilt, Michele - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 133-175

Living arrangements have changed enormously over the last two centuries. While the average American today lives in a household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the number of adults in a household have fallen...

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Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behind

Ng, James - 2018

Economic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the remittances of overseas migrant labour in the sending country's economy. Recently, due in no small part to the availability of rich microdata, more attention has been paid to the...

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