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Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: evidence from US twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin C.; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … through education, but find no evidence that parents reinforce differences in skill endowments. We argue that there is a bias …

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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model

Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jacques - In: Economia 14 (2013) 2, pp. 46-60

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...

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Sibling Rivalry, Resources Constraints, and the Health of Children.

Garg, A; Morduch, J - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1996

Low levels of human capital ivnestment in poor countries have important implications for economic growth, distribution, and social conditions -- and competing explanations for the low levels have been suggested. The most prominent explanations cite low returns, parental preferences, cultural...

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“The Child is Father of the Man:” Implications for the Demographic Transition

Croix, David de la; Licandro, Omar - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

and education all result from individual decisions. The model displays different regimes, allowing the economy to move …

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School quality and the education–health relationship: Evidence from Blacks in segregated schools

Frisvold, David; Golberstein, Ezra - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1232-1245

school year, amplify the beneficial effects of education on several measures of health in later life, including self …

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. The authors present a life-cycle model...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains...

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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …

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Gender differences in adolescents' socioemotional development and their later economic consequences

Azmat, Ghazala; Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2022

. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders. …

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