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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents "tax" their … children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …
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We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on …
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We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on …
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The effect of incomplete markets on parental investments is investigated. Uninsured risk and credit constraints can distort the timing of parental investments, causing them to be delayed relative to what would occur under full-insurance. Age-dependent subsidies, taxes or transfers can all...
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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