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Spatial correlates of U.S. heights and BMIs, 2002
Komlos, John; Lauderdale, Benjamin E. - 2004
Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440460
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The scourge of Asian Flu : in utero exposure to pandemic influenza and the development of a cohort of British children
Kelly, Elaine (contributor) - 2009
British children who were all potentially exposed in the womb. Epidemic effects are identified using geographic variation in a … at 7 and 11, but only for the offspring of mother's with certain health characteristics. By contrast, the impact of the … across maternal health and socioeconomic indicators. Taken together, our results point to multiple channels linking foetal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882384
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Mother's education and birth weight
Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2007
weight with an increase from the baseline weight ranging from 2% to 6%. -- Returns to education ; health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869829
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Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development
Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - 2009
In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877311
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Infant mortality and the health of survivors : Britain 1910 - 1950
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … century. -- Heights of children ; infant mortality ; health in Britain … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962578
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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349212
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Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development
Bono, Emilia Del - 2009
In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158091
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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask
Johnston, David W. - 2010
child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic … determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146467
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Mother's Education and Birth Weight
Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2021
Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317202
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Disability and Work : The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
van der Klaauw, Bas; Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena Nozal, Ana - 2021
model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317622