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The increase in weather and climate disasters in recent years has prompted an interest in analyzing their consequences … System to estimate the effect of extreme weather events on the subjective well-being of U.S. residents. Our results indicate …
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I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of … children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on … - higher ability children are more likely to be enrolled in school and less likely to work and, conditional on participation …
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individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …
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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316059
assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237115
Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United...
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