productivity of investment in health and nutrition early in the life cycle. Age at menarche is presented as a proxy for certain …This study uses a human capital framework to evaluate the impact on labor market productivity of investments in health … and nutrition in Mexico. The research extends the existing literature by proposing age at menarche as an effective …

productivity of investment in health and nutrition early in the life cycle. Age at menarche is presented as a proxy for certain …This study uses a human capital framework to evaluate the impact on labor market productivity of investments in health … and nutrition in Mexico. The research extends the existing literature by proposing age at menarche as an effective …

significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

analysis of the wage effect of creative occupations shows that cultural creativity (unlike technical creativity) is …

Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the … propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage penalty of 77.1 percent. Earnings losses together with positive selection, and …