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Wealthy, healthy, and wise: does money compensate for being born into difficult conditions?

Manley, James; Fernald, Lia; Gertler, Paul - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2012

Recent studies have linked transfers from Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades (formerly PROGRESA) to improvements in child development (Fernald, Gertler, and Neufeld 2008, 2009) but this work has been crit icized as failing to account for endogeneity of the transfers. We...

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The Dynamics of Income-related Health Inequality among US Children

Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - CESifo - 2011

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced byAllanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family …

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Spillovers in learning and behavior: Evidence from a nutritional information campaign in urban slums

Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides evidence for spillovers in learning and behavior within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. In an experiment, mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers were provided recipe books to lower their price per calorie. Theory suggests that if...

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Genetic Endowments, Parental and Child Health in Rural Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2003

reinforces the widespread suspicion that most income coefficients in the literature are biased upwards due to correlation between … unobservable heterogeneity and income levels. But the height of parents is highly significant in all specifications. Even though …

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Chapter 56 The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries

Glewwe, Paul; Miguel, Edward A. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3561-3606). 2007

Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most less developed countries also complete far fewer years of schooling, and learn less per year of schooling, than do children in developed countries. Recent research has shown that...

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Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage

Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023

A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective...

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Child Health and Family Income: Physical and Psychosocial Health

Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2007

This paper contributes to the important policy related literature on income and health by providing a detailed … investigation of the family income/child health relationship using matched parent–child survey data from the Swedish Survey of … as on the liquidity constraint problems the household faces. We find little evidence of an income gradient or effect on …

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Are Urban Children really healthier?

Poel, Ellen van de; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...

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Genetic Endowments, Parental and Child Health in Rural Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket - EconWPA - 2004

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Health supplier quality and the distribution of child health

Propper, Carol; Rigg, John - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2005

There is emerging evidence to suggest that initial differentials between the health of poor and more affluent children in the UK do not widen over early childhood. One reason may be that through the universal public funded health care system all children have access to equally effective primary...

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