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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742361
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Chapter 1. Nature and Nurture Effects On Childrens Outcomes : What Have We Learned From Studies of Twins And Adoptees?
Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1-30). 2011
examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature … transmission of income and education to their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025702
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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325019
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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation
Reinkowski, Janina - 2013
intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult children. Chapter 1 explores the effects of grandchild care on grandparent labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742990
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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children
Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious correlation rather than some causal mechanism. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280782
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The impact on child health from access to water and sanitation and other socioeconomic factors
Khanna, Gauri - 2008
In this paper we examine the impacts on child health, using diarrhoea as the health outcome, (amongst children living … specific factors. Using cross-sectional health survey data for India, we employ the propensity score method to match children … belonging to different treatment groups, defined by water types and sanitation facilities, with children in a control group. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875271
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The weight of the crisis : evidence from newborns in Argentina
Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great Depression. In this article we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156102
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The weight of the crisis : evidence from newborns in Argentina
Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010
Argentina hit world news headlines in 2002 due to the largest debt-default in history and a sudden economic collapse reminiscent of economic statistics from the Great Depression. In this article, we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious, but that may linger for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009262085
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Early life health and adult earnings : evidence from a large sample of siblings and twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309472
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The kid's speech : the effect of stuttering on human capital acquisition
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2011
A number of studies have shown that childhood speech impairments such as stuttering are associated with lower test scores and educational attainment. However, it is unclear whether this result is causal in nature or whether it can be explained by difficult-to-measure heterogeneity at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309645