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parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify …The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … adolescents globally; however, the relationships between unemployment and weight are predominantly studied in adults. This study …
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on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely …-economic, biological and health data from over 75k individuals aged between 18 and 63. We conclude that women born in adverse economic …
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This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and … periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that parental unemployment bears an association with decreased health … increased parental unemployment, saw a decrease in health-related quality of life and increased adverse mental health symptoms …
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This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and … periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that parental unemployment bears an association with decreased health … increased parental unemployment, saw a decrease in health-related quality of life and increased adverse mental health symptoms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342940
Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
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Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739594
We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county … Services, and identify the effect using a Bartik instrument. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate causes a … 20 percent increase in neglect. We provide evidence that parents' lack of social and private safety nets is an important …
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Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319478
information on their children's school performance, for a sample of over 300 students. Using individual fixed effects, the … loss. These results are mainly driven by those students whose fathers suffer long unemployment spells. In contrast, the …
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utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that …
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