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Early Life Health Interventions and Childhood Development: Evidence from Special Care Nursery Assignment in Australia’s Northern Territory
Schnepel, Kevin T.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2017
This paper studies the effect of improved early-life health care, through assignment to a special care nursery (SCN), on childhood development and school achievement. We use linked administrative data in the Northern Territory of Australia and exploit the fact that assignment to SCN is largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712753
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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?
Rao, Ziwei - 2021
This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by innovatively employing population policies in the early 1970s and the sex of the eldest child within families as plausibly exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623170
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The Effects of a Household Income Shock on Infant Health. Evidence from a Welfare Benefits Reform
Janssen, Simon - 2018
We investigate the effect of a large welfare benefits cut on child health. Our identification strategy exploits a policy reform of the German welfare system that reduced benefits for families with infants by about 30 percent of their previous household income. The empirical analysis relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892112
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The impact of government health and education expenditure on income inequality in EU
Jianu, Ionuț - 2018
This research aims to provide an overview of the existing inequalities and their drivers in the member states of the European Union as well as their developements in the 2002-2008 and 2009- 2015 sub-periods. It also analyses the impact of health and education government spending on income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985581
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Preferences for childcare policies: Theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2010
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model … childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270253
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The Effect of Early Universal Daycare on Child Weight Problems
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014
As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child's long term development. Based on the German national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396874
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The Long-Term Labor Market Effects of Parental Unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287827
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Unemployment, Sick Leave and Health
Schön, Matthias - 2015
This paper studies the relationship between sick leave, income and unemployment. In particular, it investigates this … absence of direct costs of sick leave the fear of future unemployment is the main driving force restraining sick leave. I then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301609
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The Effects of Sickness Absence in School on Educational Achievements, Mortality and Income
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Cattan, Sarah; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2015
This study investigates the effect of missed instruction time in school on short-term educational performance as well as long-term retirement income and mortality. Using self-gathered Swedish register data, we are able to distinguish total days of absence within a school year and missed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301776
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Determinants of Access to Healthcare: A Survey in Istanbul
Paköz, Muhammed Ziya; Yüzer, Mehmet Ali - 2014
Access to healthcare is formed according to the characteristics of the supply and demand. While siting hospitals, ?equity' in access to healthcare should be taken as a basis for all segments of society, and necessary measures should be taken to ensure that vulnerable groups benefit from health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400179