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Growing in the Womb : The Effect of Seismic Activity on Fetal Growth

Álvarez-Aranda, Rocío - 2019

We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...

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Growing in the womb : the effect of seismic activity on fetal growth

Álvarez, Rocío; Chirkova, Serafima; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2018

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Migration, diversity, and economic growth : a replication study of Bove and Elia (World Development, 2017)

Balsimelli Ghelli, Bianca; Ventura, Luigi - In: Journal of comments and replications in economics 3 (2024), pp. 1-18

and methodology, we show that the impact of diversity cannot be distinguished from that of migration itself due to the … very high correlation among the corresponding variables. Also, if one disentangles migration from diversity, following … Alesina et al. (2016), only migration maintains a positive impact on growth while diversity, as captured by fractionalization …

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Growing richer and taller: Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status during Vietnam’s Economic Boom

O'Donnell, Owen; Nicolás, Ángel López; van … - 2007

Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...

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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated

Schiff, Maurice - 2005

Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...

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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...

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Natural selection and the evolution of life expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2004

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory argues that social, economic and...

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Investing in health for economic development: The case of Mexico

Lustig, Nora - 2006

Health is an asset with an intrinsic value as well as an instrumental value. Good health is a source of wellbeing and highly valued throughout the world. Health is not only the absence of illness, but capacity to develop a person’s potential. Health is also an important determinant of economic...

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Childhood mortality and economic growth

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...

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Poverty and survival

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data...

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