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Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

analysis is a concept we call ‘hedonic capital’. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life … existence of a stable level of wellbeing and a tendency to return gradually towards that level. It offers a theory of hedonic …

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Trends of children's height and parental unemployment: a large-scale anthropometric study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006

Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2008

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school height measurements was compiled and complemented with …

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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Anand, Paul; Allen, Heidi; Ferrer, Robert; Gold, Natalie; … - 2020

a shared kitchen, university degree type, riskaversion, extraversion and height are predictors of transmission. The … about both structural and individual factors that predict transmission. The evidence about height is discussed in the …

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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital

Schultz, T. Paul - 2002

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and … influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of …

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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2014

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011

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