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The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …’ preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …
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We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 … used classification, workers from the first (low status) group display more health deficits at any age and accumulate …
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Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...
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-nationals who remained in Ukraine. Specifically, we identify the determinants of happiness, trust and self-declared health, and the …. Having suffered violence, however, has a lasting adverse impact on the happiness, trust and health of Ukrainians in Poland …
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pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure …
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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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We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …
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This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …
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Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …
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