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Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...

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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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Returns to Childbirth Technologies : Evidence from Preterm Births

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2014

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...

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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

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

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

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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018

This paper examines weight loss and the formation of healthy habits through cash rewards in the context of a multi-phase randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese individuals. We find effects of monetary incentives for weight loss of up to EUR 300 on body weight during all experimental...

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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018

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A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes : identifying causality through school transitions

Dunn, Richard A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...

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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions : Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Herbst, Chris M. - 2012

A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

subsidy on the healthy good. This earmarking rule is determined at a constitutional stage to maximize utilitarian or Rawlsian … fat tax. Instead, it may involve a tradeoff between the fat tax and the healthy good subsidy. …

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