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Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental distress and non-cognitive skills development of adolescents; both self-reported and more objectively measured bio-measures are used to capture parental health. Overall, we...
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Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using...
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phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …
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effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that … negative selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes …
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-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
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adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an … adulthood. The affected children were 12 p.p. more likely not to be in education, employment, or training (NEET) at the age of …
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