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The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2013
children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071730
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Should early health investments work? : evidence from an RCT of a home visiting programme
Coy, Deirdre; Doyle, Orla - 2020
Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251242
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Every Breath You Take – Every Dollar You Make : The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970
Isen, Adam; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Walker, Reed - 2013
This paper examines the long-term impacts of in-utero and early childhood exposure to ambient air pollution on adult labor market outcomes. We take advantage of a new administrative data set that is uniquely suited for addressing this question because it combines information on individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150288
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The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233704
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Early effects of the Affordable Care Act on health care access, risky health behaviors, and self-assessed health
Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2017
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631585
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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957932
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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959071
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The life-cycle benefits of an influential early childhood program
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016
beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595977
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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2021 - Revised version
This paper examines the effect of two different soda taxes on consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children … in Europe: Hungary imposed a Public Health Product Tax (PHPT) on several unhealthy products in 2011. France introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670748
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In-kind transfer and child development : evidence from subsidized rice program in Indonesia
Gupta, Prachi; Huang, Bihong - 2018
-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … improved anthropometric health outcomes for these children in later years. The gains are found to be higher for children who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811870