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child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed …, exposed children had a lower level of development, cognition skills, and more attention problems relative to children not … trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
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rich individual data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro …-cyclical. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health which varies from strongly adverse for the … which can explain both the overall and heterogenous findings: maternal stress, health behaviour, and prenatal care. We also …
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data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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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 … children must be temporarily quarantined. …
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Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …
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births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
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for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We … implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to …
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countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
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, fertility determinants that might deteriorate with age, such as health, and their effect on reproductive patterns, should be … given more attention. We explore the effect of the subjective general health of women of reproductive age on the conditional … not find a homogeneous health effect on the probability of having a first child. However, allowing effect heterogeneity …
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