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educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less …
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educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926708
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …
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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …
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's baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language … auf Anämie oder geistige Entwicklung. Jedoch ergibt sich eine Kreuzproduktivität zwischen der Gesundheit der Kinder zu …The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In …
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’s baseline health and the interventions’ effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language …The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238460
's baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language … auf Anämie oder geistige Entwicklung. Jedoch ergibt sich eine Kreuzproduktivität zwischen der Gesundheit der Kinder zu …The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250089
order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … order differences in parental health investment. Compared to their later-born siblings, first-born children are more likely … known about birth order effects on health. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth …
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order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … order differences in parental health investment. Compared to their later-born siblings, first-born children are more likely … known about birth order effects on health. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111849
In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...
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