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's effects on child mortality and educational attainment in India. Results show that exposure to the program reduced infant …. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther …
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's effects on child mortality and educational attainment in India. Results show that exposure to the program reduced infant …. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045452
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
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, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …
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-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …
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worker health. To do so, we analyze male workers after an acute workplace injury that experience differential levels of … are more likely to remain in the labor force. We observe no differences in any physical or mental health outcomes … yield any detectable health costs, on the margin. …
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, program spillovers, and worker health. To do so, we analyze workers after an acute workplace injury that experience … health outcomes. Our findings imply that imposing stricter DI screening has large fiscal benefits but does not yield any … detectable health costs, on the margin. …
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, program spillovers, and worker health. To do so, we analyze workers after a workplace injury that experience differential … health outcomes. Our findings imply that imposing stricter DI screening has large fiscal benefits but does not yield any … detectable health costs, on the margin. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306038
We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of...
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The Spaniards stature evolution between 1850 and 1930 as well as the relationships among nutrition, health, and welfare … of modern economic growth within an international context. Likewise, our series shows stature increase in those …
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