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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital
Schultz, T. Paul - 2002
Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and … influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369244
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Work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission
Anand, Paul; llen, Heidi; Ferrer, Robert; Gold, Natalie; … - 2020
a shared kitchen, university degree type, riskaversion, extraversion and height are predictors of transmission. The … about both structural and individual factors that predict transmission. The evidence about height is discussed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252810
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Wage gains associated with height as a form of health human capital
Schultz, T. Paul - 2002
Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and … influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612750
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An empirical note on imitative obesity and a puzzling result
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2006, I test recent theoretical predictions on social comparisons influencing individual Body Mass Index (BMI). I find that in particular the average BMI of individuals in the same county-age-gender-cell as the respective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286602
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An empirical note on imitative obesity and a puzzling result
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2006, I test recent theoretical predictions on social comparisons influencing individual Body Mass Index (BMI). I find that in particular the average BMI of individuals in the same county-age-gender-cell as the respective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974278
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Health and the savings of insured versus uninsured, working-age households in the U.S.
Toussaint-Comeau, Maude; Hartley, Jonathan - 2009
This paper examines the effect of a decline in health on the savings and portfolio choice of young, working individuals and the differences between insured and uninsured cohorts using the 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that insured individuals are significantly likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923822
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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269515
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Household choices and child development
Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010
The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274672
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Self investments of adolescents and their cognitive development
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2012
While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children invest their time separately from parents is probably little informative for babies and toddlers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289877
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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935113