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Parental Education and Child Health - Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

Aslam, Monazza; Kingdon, Geeta - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010

and weight) and parental health-seeking behaviour (immunisation status of children), on the other. While establishing a … more complex. Using unique data from Pakistan, we aim to understand the mechanisms through which parental schooling … empowerment within the home. We find that while father's education is positively associated with the 'one-off' immunisation …

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Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

Aslam, Monazza; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - In: World Development 40 (2012) 10, pp. 2014-2032

Pakistan, we aim to understand the mechanisms through which parental schooling promotes better child health and health …

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The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany

Schwandt, Hannes; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2015

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a leading diagnosed health condition among children in many developed countries but the causes underlying these high levels of ADHD remain highly controversial. Recent research for the U.S., Canada and some European countries shows that children...

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Does substance use affect educational outcomes?

Rees, Daniel I. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does the use of alcohol and illegal substances—which is linked to depression, suicide, and crime—reduce academic performance? Recent studies suggest that drinking has a negative, if modest, effect on grades,...

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Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use

Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder; Willebrands, Daan - 2011

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of market persons in Lagos in 2008. Last-time-condom-use is analyzed based on a Probit model while correcting for...

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Assessing development strategies to achieve the MDGs in Asia: Macroeconomic strategies of MDG achievement in the Kyrgyz Republic

Mogilevsky, Roman; Omorova, Anarkul - 2011

The paper aims at analyzing macroeconomic and financial strategies, which are to ensure achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Kyrgyz Republic. The paper is based on results of simulations generated through the application of standard MAMS, a computable general equilibrium...

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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?

Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2014

The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent occupation-specific demands explain the relationship between education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed...

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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Testing a conditional cash transfer program in the US: The effects of the family rewards program in New York City

Miller, Cynthia; Riccio, James; Verma, Nandita; Nuñez, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program led to substantial...

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Workload, staff composition, and sickness absence. Findings from employees in child care centers

Gunnes, Trude; Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil - 2018

Persistently high workload may raise sickness absence with associated costs to firms and society. We proxy workload by the number of adults per child in Norwegian child care centers, but do not find that centers with many adults per child have lower sickness absence than other centers. However,...

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