seems to affect fetal growth, because infants born to mothers exposed to earth tremors in early and/or mid gestation are … more likely to be large for gestational age. The estimates suggest that relatively poorer Chilean mothers are more … evidence that suggests a possible mechanism that explains the varying results across socioeconomic status. Mothers with …

per capita for a panel of 35 developed and developing countries over an annual period of 33 years (1981 - 2013). The … broadband penetration on economic growth. Our methodology consists of two models, the first one is a fixed effects panel data … values in a panel regression to determine the impact over the growth rate of GDP per capita. Our approach includes as an …

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … panel data from the European Community Household Panel surveys. We use pooled interval regressions and inequality …

-GMM estimation and panel granger causality test. We found that gross domestic investment and regulatory quality are the main …

disasters ; instrumental variable estimation ; panel econometrics … institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's geography-based empirical strategy to a panel setting. We observe that … in panel setups where it is possible to fully control for geographical and historical determinants of countries …

institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's geography-based empirical strategy to a panel setting. We observe that … in panel setups where it is possible to fully control for geographical and historical determinants of countries …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A … unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of … manifested in differences in the relationship between birthweight and schooling between males and females, which in turn reflect …

We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this … want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments … parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents …