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has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead …-experimental literature on lead and fertility, infant mortality, and infant birth outcomes, highlighting key results, methods, and …
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has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead …-experimental literature on lead and fertility, infant mortality, and infant birth outcomes, highlighting key results, methods, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347498
exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital … prematurity. The effects are larger for black or less educated mothers. Children born to disadvantaged mothers demonstrated 1 … the channel of mortality selection. These results survive a rich set of placebo and falsification tests. Finally, our …
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channel of mortality selection. However, we observe a slight decline in the sex ratio among children born to black mothers … a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a …
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of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early … referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for … children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test …
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We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
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) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …
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children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility …This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of …
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has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead …-experimental literature on lead and fertility, infant mortality, and infant birth outcomes, highlighting key results, methods, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377139
This paper assesses the impact of glyphosate use in agriculture on birth outcomes of human populations in surrounding areas. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Still, despite ongoing controversy, little is known about its effects on human populations at large. Our...
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