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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087237
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001796068
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259
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The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children
Cawley, John H.; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This … spillovers to achievement test scores. -- obesity ; physical activity ; physical education ; children ; health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581227
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099766
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The Timing of Early Interventions and Child and Maternal Health
Hirani, Jonas Lau-Jensen - 2020
variation in children's age at strike start, we show that early, but not later, strike exposure increases child and mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838935
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Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
Breining, Sanni - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement.Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021525
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Missing a nurse visit
Hirani, Jonas Lau-Jensen; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; … - 2020
variation in children's age at strike start, we show that early, but not later, strike exposure increases child and mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252332
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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Socioeconomic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon - 2010
How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012717669
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Do You Get What You Pay for with School-Based Health Programs? Evidence from a Child Nutrition Experiment in Rural China
Sylvia, Sean; Luo, Renfu; Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; … - 2013
This study uses a randomized controlled trial of a school-based anemia reduction program in rural China to examine how increased school emphasis on health promotion affects academic performance. Although education and health promotion are complementary functions of schools, they do compete for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151809