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Economic preferences may be shaped by exposure to sex hormones around birth. Prior studies of economic preferences and numerous other phenotypic characteristics use digit ratios (2D:4D), a purported proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure, whose validity has recently been questioned. We use...
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Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
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A life cycle model of fertility based on the quantity-quality model of fertility successfully explains changes in … completed fertility in a period in which completed fertility first fell and then rose. This model furthermore accurately … predicts the timing and level of the subsequent peak in completed fertility. Regressions based on Easterlin's relative economic …
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Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth...
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