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Pollution exposure and infant health : evidence from Germany

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010

years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution … changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …

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Educational differences in smoking : selection versus causation

Jürges, Hendrik; Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2017

We investigate sources of educational differences in smoking. Using a large German data set containing retrospective … information on the age at smoking onset, we compare age-specific hazard rates of starting smoking between (future) low and high … educated individuals. We and that up to 90% of the educational differences in smoking develop before the age of 16, i.e. before …

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Extended family networks in rural Mexico : a descriptive analysis

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009

We provide descriptive evidence on the characteristics of a household's extended family network using data from the Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of household heads and their spouses and the patronymic naming...

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Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico : A Descriptive Analysis

Angelucci, Manuela - 2009

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Intergenerational transmission of spousal inequality

Nguyen, Kieu-Dung - In: Estudios de economía 48 (2021) 1, pp. 5-33

This paper studies whether sons and daughters reproduce in their relationships the same intra-household inequalities observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we emphasize the relevance of transmission of preference...

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Doctor who? The effect of physician-patient match on the SES-health gradient

Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Sheng, Yanying - 2022

We investigate whether primary care physician and patient concordance in terms of socio-economic status (SES) reduces the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases low-SES patients' mortality, while high-SES patients'...

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The Role of Weight Status in Intergenerational Correlations of Education

Classen, Timothy J. - 2007

The research developed in this paper estimates the role of weight status in intergenerational correlations of educational attainment between women and their children. I consider a model of how obesity may influence the accumulation of human capital and its correlation across generations. Credit...

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The evolution of secularization : cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...

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Education and family background : mechanisms and policies

Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified...

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Does quality time produce quality children? : evidence on the intergenerational transmission of human capital using parental deaths

Gould, Eric D.; Simhon, Avi - 2011

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...

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