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The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study
Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: German Economic Review 21 (2020) 3, pp. 335-371
We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377336
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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 660-672
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in the socioeconomic and public health environment into which children are born using individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600,000 mothers during the period 1970 to 2000 in 38...
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
S, Bhalotra; S, Rawlings - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
economic conditions. Child health is indicated by infant survival. Our measure of maternal health is (relative) height … intergenerational correlation of health that is stronger at both tails of the distribution of mother’s height, and larger for negative … deviations from mean height. We show that improving maternal education, raising income and improving the supply or effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963273
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009
’s health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in mother’s education, income and public health provision that occur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479588
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976885
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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891167
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Anthropometric Failure and Persistence of Poverty in Rural India
Kulkarni, Veena; Gaiha, Raghav - Econometric Society - 2004
Recent studies have drawn attention to high prevalence of stunting among children in rural India. In fact, these estimates point to more pervasive deprivation than conventional measures of poverty based on income or consumption expenditure shortfalls. Since stunting measures chronic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005329024