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Using a sample of sibling pairs from a nationally representative U.S. survey, we examine the effects of the fetal growth rate on a set of neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood measured by parent-reported diagnosed developmental disabilities and behavior problems. Based on models that include...
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high levels of growth but very low levels of female schooling, and that deleting the female education variable would cast … doubt on the statistical significance of the male education variable. Deletion diagnostics and partial scatter plots are … sample and deleting female education from their growth equations is then examined. The results obtained point to the fragile …
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This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error-correction methodology. Two channels are analyzed, by which human capital is expected to influence growth. A better-educated labor force appears to have a positive and...
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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 … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …
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how this impact depends on the levels of health and education expenditures. We analyze time series data from Pakistan …. Furthermore, the estimations reveal that better facilities for health and education strengthen the positive effects of LF on EG …. This suggests a complementary relationship between health, education, and LF in driving EG. Moreover, our findings …
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