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impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …
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We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
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harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …
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This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the...
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This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …
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This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …
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their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on …
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