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Early childhood health during conflict : the legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda

Bridges, Sarah; Scott, Douglas - 2019

This study finds evidence of irreversible health deficits amongst young children who were exposed to the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency in Northern Uganda (1987- 2007). The causal effect of the conflict is found to be a 0.65 standard deviation fall in height-for-age z-scores amongst...

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Will you marry me ... if our children are healthy? : the impact of maternal age and the associated risk of having a child with health problems on family structure

Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data...

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Birth order and child health

Björkegren, Evelina; Svaleryd, Helena - 2017

Previous research has shown that birth order affects outcomes such as educational achievements, IQ and earnings. The mechanisms behind these effects are, however, still largely unknown. In this paper, we examine birth-order effects on health, and whether health at young age could be a...

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Birth order and child health

Björkegren, Evelina; Svaleryd, Helena - 2017

Previous research has established that birth order affects outcomes such as educational achievements, IQ and earnings. The mechanisms behind these effects are, however, still largely unknown. In this paper, we examine birth-order effects on health, and whether health at young age could be a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620478

Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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Family income and child health in China

Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; zhu, Rong - In: China Economic Review 29 (2014) C, pp. 152-165

We examine the effect of family income on child health using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We find a … significant child health/family income gradient for the overall sample of Chinese children. Our preferred specification shows that … the income gradient increases with child age until the age of 12. We find that parental health consciousness, household …

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

, controlling for parental income, education and family composition, that parents who experience poor health have children with …

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Fertility and Income

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

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

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What Effect Does Female Autonomy Have on Child Health? Microeconometric Evidence from Rural India

Wada, Kazuya - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2011

This study investigates the effects of an improvement in female autonomy on children's welfare in the developing world, taking into consideration intra-household resource allocation through decision-making processes within households. Using a female autonomy index constructed from India's...

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