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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Trade and Development in a Labor Surplus Economy

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2005

This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...

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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 – 1913

Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas N. - CESifo - 2006

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...

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African-American and White Inequality in the American South: Evidence from the 19th Century Missouri State Prison

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in the literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One...

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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how … the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the … 19th century relationship between material inequality and health was negative; greater average state wealth was …

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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction

Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2013

concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

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Sports and Child Development

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - CESifo - 2011

Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children’s skill...

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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