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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

Life History Survey (2014), we find that key domains of childhood circumstances, including family socioeconomic status (SES …

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The relationship between early-life conditions in the home country and adult outcomes among child immigrants in the United States

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2020

We examine the impact of health and economic conditions at birth on the adult outcomes of child immigrants using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Our sample consists of children from 39 countries who were brought to the United States before the age of 13. We estimate immigrant...

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The lasting legacy of seasonal influenza : in-utero exposure and labor market outcomes

Schwandt, Hannes - 2017

Pregnancy conditions have been shown to matter for later economic success, but many threats to fetal development that have been identified are difficult to prevent. In this paper I study seasonal influenza, a preventable illness that comes around every year and causes strong inflammatory...

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Labor market effects of intrauterine exposure to nutritional deficiency : evidence from administrative data on Muslim immigrants in Denmark

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...

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Comprehensive E-cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use among Youth and Adults

Saffer, Henry; Ozdogan, Selen; Grossman, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

and potential spillovers into other tobacco use by youth, young adults, and adults. We utilize both standard difference …-in-differences (DID) and synthetic DID methods, in conjunction with four national data sets. We find evidence that young adults decrease …-cigarette and smoking participation among older adults (ages 25+). Our findings suggest that statewide comprehensive flavor bans may …

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Does Work During Childhood Affect Adult’s Health? An Analysis for Guatemala

Rosati, Furio C.; Straub, Roland - 2011

The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling for unobserved household specific characteristics. In...

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The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labour

Basu, Kaushik - 2000

, for instance, cause some adults to be unemployed and send their children to work, which in turn displaces more adult …

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Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults : A Research Note

Chen, Xi - 2022

the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss …

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