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Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children’s development in the first five years of life,...
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Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - In: American economic journal 14 (2022) 3, pp. 329-366
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia.
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520285
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Chapter 35 Market failures and second-best analysis with a focus on nutrition, credit, and incomplete markets
Innes, Robert - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 1827-1892). 2002
This chapter studies second-best models of nutritional externalities, credit, and incomplete markets for risk, developing implications for welfare-improving government policy using primitive economic building blocks. Using a simple model of altruism wherein the rich obtain utility from the...
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Competing with fad products : erroneous health beliefs and market outcomes
Bauner, Christoph; Lavoie, Nathalie - In: European review of agricultural economics 50 (2023) 3, pp. 879-917
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettnerz, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010
population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate microfounded fertility and schooling into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289001
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The past and future of knowledge-based growth
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2012
-founded fertility and schooling behavior. The model explains the historical emergence of R&D-based growth and the subsequent emergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311668
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Asian economics 12 (2001) 3, pp. 401-417
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314292
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010
population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352611
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167027