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Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make : The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

Isen, Adam - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on adult outcomes using U.S. administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by the 1970 Clean Air Act to analyze the difference in outcomes between cohorts born in counties before and after...

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Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make : The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

Isen, Adam - 2014

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Adolescent Depression and Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012

This paper uses recently released data from a national longitudinal sample to present new evidence of the longer term effects of adolescent depression on labor market outcomes. Results suggest reductions in labor force attachment of approximately 5 percentage points and earnings reductions of...

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Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults : Estimation of a Recursive Model

Karakus, Mustafa C. - 2010

The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs. However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior...

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Teenage Body Weight on Adult Wages

Han, Euna - 2009

Previous estimates on the association between body weight and wages in the literature have been contingent on education and occupation. This paper examines the direct effect of BMI on wages and the indirect effects operating through education and occupation choice, particularly for late-teen BMI...

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Too Young to Leave the Nest : The Effects of School Starting Age

Black, Sandra E. - 2008

Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to examine the role of school starting age on longer-run...

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

adults are significantly more likely to have died five years later if they are poor. The direction of causality is unclear …

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Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2007

We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income … measure of the disease and nutritional burden in childhood, and the mean height of those children as adults. In pooled birth …

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018

To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...

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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - In: Journal of labor economics 37 (2019) 3, pp. 949-1007

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