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Schultz, T. Paul - 2005

There is an inverse association between income per adult and fertility among countries, and across households this …

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Parental income and child health in Germany

Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the … results, we do not find that the disadvantages associated with low parental income accumulate as the child ages, nor that …

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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict

Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2011

This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...

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Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital

Conti, Gabriella; Hanson, Mark; Inskip, Hazel; Crozier, … - 2020

Birth weight is the most widely used indicator of neonatal health, mainly because it is routinely recorded in birth registries. But are better measures available? We use unique data including fetal ultrasounds to show that more specific measures of the fetus and of the newborn are more...

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Should early health investments work? Evidence from an RCT of a home visiting programme

Coy, Deirdre; Doyle, Orla - 2020

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous methods, careful hypothesis setting, and socioeconomic contextualisation, we examine the impact of an Irish home visiting programme on child health. The treatment provides...

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Cesarean Sections for High-Risk Births: Health, Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes

Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018

Despite the fact that Cesarean section (C-section) is the most commonly performed surgery in a number of industrialized countries, little is known about the long-term consequences for the mothers and children involved. In this study, I use a sample of high-risk births—namely, breech births, in...

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Electricity Outages and Health Outcomes of Children: Empirical Evidence from Transition Economy

Sargsyan, Yermone - 2021

The electricity prices in developing countries are relatively low to recover its costs of generation and provision. This results in under-investment in infrastructure, which usually leads to frequent outages or rolling blackouts by the electricity suppliers. Outages may have an adverse impact on...

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Birth Order and Health of Newborns: What Can We Learn from Danish Registry Data?

Brenoee, Anne Ardila; Molitor, Ramona - 2015

Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and...

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In-utero Exposure to Violence and Child Health in Iraq

Sardoschau, Sulin - 2023

This paper examines the impact of exposure to violence during pregnancy on anthropometric and cognitive outcomes of children in the medium-run. I combine detailed household-level data on more than 36,000 children with geo-coded information on civilian casualties in the aftermath of the US...

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2014

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on parental unemployment. We find that children with...

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