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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia's break up

Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - 2014

capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …

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Biological well-being in late 19th century Philippines

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015

height and use province level information for investigating the determinants of biological wellbeing. The results indicate a … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …

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Tall building and land values : height and construction cost elasticities in Chicago, 1870 - 2010

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; McMillen, Daniel P. - 2017

empirically understudied. This paper analyzes the determinants of the urban height profile by combining a micro-geographic data … elasticity of height, the height elasticity of construction cost, and the elasticity of substitution between land and capital for … tall buildings. In line with improvements in construction technology, the land price elasticity of height increased …

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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross country and cohort variation in heights and employ a new instrument for democracy and the extension of...

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The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022

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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Child penalties in politics

Fiva, Jon H.; King, Max-Emil M. - 2022

Women tend to experience substantial declines in their labor income after their first child is born, while men do not. Do such "child penalties" also exist in the political arena? Using extensive administrative data from Norway and an event-study methodology, we find that women drop out of local...

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Parenting with patience : parental incentives and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2023

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to increase the child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills within a Markov Perfect Equilibrium framework. In addition to time and money investments in their child, parents also...

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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...

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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children's life satisfaction. When controlling...

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The long-term impact of parental migration on the health of young left-behind children

Li, Jinkai; Luo, Erga; Cockx, Bart - 2023

In 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents migrated to a city. We implement an event study analysis between 2010 and 2018 on five waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental...

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