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The effects of home visiting on mother-child interactions : evidence from a randomised trial using dynamic micro-level data
Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Sandner, Malte; … - 2020
Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children … responses of both mothers and children in three key measures of behavior: orientation, positive contingency, and negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164655
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Inequality in the early years in LAC : a comparative study of size, persistence, and policies
Attanasio, Orazio P.; López Bóo, Florencia; … - 2023
development (namely, language, cognition, and socio-emotional skills) of children 0-5 in five Latin American countries (Chile … increase with age. Results are robust to using different measures of inequality (income and maternal education). Gaps are … implementing evidence-based interventions at scale to improve developmental outcomes of the most disadvantaged children in society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540268
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Early Life Adversity, Biological Adaptation, and Human Capital
Fink, Günther; Venkataramani, Atheendar; Zanolini, Arianna - 2017
Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments … educational attainment if children are later re-exposed. Our findings highlight the importance of capturing the critical tradeoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130925
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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131356
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Increasing returns to education and the skills under-investment trap
Booth, Alison L. (contributor);  … - 2005
production ; labor supply ; returns to education ; income tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003011508
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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2021
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318399
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Diabetes, employment and behavioural risk factors in China : marginal structural models versus fixed effects models
Seuring, Till; Serneels, Pieter; Suhrcke, Marc; … - 2018
A diabetes diagnosis can motivate its recipients to reduce their health risks by changing lifestyles but can adversely affect their economic activity. We investigate the effect of a diabetes diagnosis on employment status and behavioural risk-factors taking into account their potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912852
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Time Is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012
This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578758