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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors - such as the number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494786
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The Contemporaneous Distributional Effects of Investments on Early Childhood Nutrition : A Panel Quantile Approach
Asfaw, Abraham - 2017
This article examines the distributional effects of early nutritional investments on contemporaneous child health endowment measurements. Depending on whether investments made in child nutrition at different times complement or substitute, the return from early childhood nutritional investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120461
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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250656
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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286188
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356976
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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014266464
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460662
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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Health Endowments, Schooling Allocation in the Family, and Longevity : Evidence from US Twins
Savelyev, Peter A. - 2020
We analyze data from the Minnesota Twin Registry (MTR), combined with the Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (SST), and new mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial casual effect of education on health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852101
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Wealth, Health, and Child Development : Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
Cesarini, David - 2015
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors – such as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022846