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. While reminders prompt additional preventive care for focal children, we find no spillovers to other health behaviors or … coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective for families with small children and when sent out close to the …
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, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …
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, including investment in health capital. This paper begins to address this gap in knowledge using a large, longitudinal medical … policies and anti-MENA rhetoric on preventive care use among MENA children in the US. Specifically, we evaluate the election of … Donald Trump, and find that the election decreased MENA children's utilization of vaccinations and well visits. Documenting …
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large … at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such as: alcohol consumption; cannabis and other drug use … adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect health behaviours. In particular, individuals …
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Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … cent increase in schooling among children with disabilities within three years. The estimate is driven by enrolment across …
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proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …
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In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the … German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …
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migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …
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