improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …

konstant halten. Dieses Ziel lässt sich am einfachsten durch Sparen erreichen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob bzw. wie …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …

zwar die Gesundheit der AnwohnerInnen positiv beeinflussen, jedoch ihre Lebenszufriedenheit temporär verringern. Abhängig …

are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …

. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health. The … considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous … health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current …

greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … poverty in the different parts of the country. One size does not fit all. Deliberate effort of the government in …