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A pint for a pound? : minimum drinking age laws and birth outcomes
Barreca, Alan I.; Page, Marianne E. - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 4, pp. 400-418
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No country for young kids? The effects of school starting age throughout childhood and beyond
Lima, Gonçalo; Nunes, Luis C.; Reis, Ana Balcão; … - 2022
Being the youngest in a cohort entails many penalties. Using administrativedata of every public-school student in Portugal, we show that although performancegains from being 1-year older fade quickly from primary education to high school,age-related penalties persist through a combination of...
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Breastfeeding and child development outcomes across early childhood and adolescence : doubly robust estimation with machine learning
Khudri, Md Mohsan; Hussey, Andrew - 2024
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate the impact of breastfeeding initiation and duration on multiple cognitive, health, and behavioral outcomes spanning early childhood through adolescence. To mitigate the potential bias from misspecification, we employ a doubly robust...
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Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Formation over the Life-Course : Evidence from an International Cohort Study
Georgiadis, Andreas; Benny, Liza; Dornan, Paul; … - 2021
Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth...
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Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers
Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this study examines the relationship between several outcomes in early adulthood (e.g., education, inactivity, earnings, and health) and being born to a teenage mother. Besides standard cross-sectional multivariate regression estimates, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317077
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Sinners or saints? : preachers' kids and risky health behaviors
Delaney, Jason; Winters, John V. - 2013
effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and other drugs. We find that … being a PK significantly reduces alcohol use. This effect comes exclusively from a reduction in the probability of any … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754769
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The Other Costs of Children : Motherhood, Substance Use, and Depression
Wilson, Sarah - 2019
has considered effects on mental health and substance use. I use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth and …'s probability of alcohol consumption by about 5.0 percentage points. These estimated effects on alcohol consumption are greater for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859802
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Does a pint a day affect your child's pay? : the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes
Nilsson, Peter (contributor) - 2008
This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal … alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was … prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp increase in alcohol consumption in the experimental regions, particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739713
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Sober mom, healthy baby? : effects of brief alcohol interventions in Swedish maternity care
Grönqvist, Erik; Norén, Anna; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2016
of children. The detrimental effects of alcohol exposure in utero are well documented, and therefore identifying … effective methods for preventing harmful maternal alcohol consumption is of great importance. We exploit the stepwise … introduction of alcohol screening and brief interventions at Swedish antenatal clinics, to evaluate the causal effect of enhanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598119
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Auditing mothers : the effect of targeted alcohol prevention on infant health and maternal behavior
Grönqvist, Erik; Norén, Anna; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2017
This study examines the effects of targeted preventive interventions for pregnant women with elevated alcohol risk on … infant health and maternal behavior. The detrimental effects of alcohol exposure in utero are well documented and universal … alcohol prevention programs are an important part of national strategies to promote maternal and child health. Identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740831