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Fetal origins : a life cycle model of health and aging from conception to death

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Casper Worm; Strulik, Holger - 2020

The fetal origins hypothesis has received considerable empirical support, both within epidemiology and economics. The present study compares the ability of two rival theoretical frameworks in accounting for the kind of path dependence implied by the fetal origins hypothesis. We argue that while...

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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India

Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022

We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...

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Dark Passage : Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Dark Passage : Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2022

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide … children …

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Building health across generations : unraveling the impact of early childcare on maternal health

Barschkett, Mara; Bosque-Mercader, Laia - 2023

respiratory diseases for a 10 percentage point rise in childcare coverage rates when their children are 1–2 years old. In contrast …

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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …

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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

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Family ruptures and intergenerational transmission of stress

Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2014

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Further, children exposed prenatally to the death of a relative up to four generations …

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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and … children's healthcare utilization in the years following the lottery and may also reduce obesity risk. The effects on most …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …

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