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Birthweight and academic achievement in childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014
data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350481
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in the US over two centuries
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Jácome, Elisa; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262225
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The long-term spillover effects of changes in the return to schooling
Abramitzky, Ran; Lavy, Victor; Pérez, Santiago - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262228
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Leaving the enclave : historical evidence on immigrant mobility from the industrial removal office
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Connor, Dylan - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262219
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Were Jews in interwar Poland more educated?
Abramitzky, Ran; Hałaburda, Hanna - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171792
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Examining the education gradient in chronic illness
Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2012
This study examines the education gradient in three chronic conditions - diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. In the analysis, we take into account diagnosed as well as undiagnosed cases, and we use methods that account for the possibility that unmeasured factors exist that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570861
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Racial/ethnic and education-related disparities in control of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among diabetics
Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2011
Objectives: To estimate racial/ethnic and education-related disparities and examine trends in uncontrolled cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from NHANES III, 1988- 1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127714
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Were Jews in interwar Poland more educated?
Abramitzky, Ran; Hałaburda, Hanna - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262192
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The dynamics of Income-related health inequality among US children
Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - 2011
, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301397
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Fetal growth and neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014
fetal growth rate is negatively associated with disruptive behaviors among male children. These results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412750