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's development. This study examines the intergenerational effects of limited English proficiency (LEP) on children's health and … health care utilisation. We use 10 years of Australian administrative health care records linked to survey data, and a … strong and positive effect on children's health care costs, but no effect on their physical or mental health. A lack of …
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This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural …
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of … from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in … destination. These comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the health advantage of recent immigrants. …
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We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …
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Based on the sample of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigate the … formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic … health and health behaviors for subjects with high parental socioeconomic status (SES). These effects are only partially …
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This article examines the relationship between the timing of childhood immigration and children's life chances in … siblings. Findings from sibling fixed-effects models reveal a progressively stronger adverse influence of immigration at later … childhood immigration have causal effects on later-life outcomes. The effect of age at arrival is heterogeneous across regions …
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early 20th century, I study immigration’s cross-generation effect on the native-born. I examine the causal impact of …-level immigration exposure. I show that childhood exposure to immigrants increases natives’ occupation ranks in adulthood, and children … of high-skilled fathers enjoy more benefits than their peers. The results suggest that immigration intensifies cross …
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We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …
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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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