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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : early life conditions and adult health in Ireland

Delaney, Liam; McGovern, Mark E.; Smith, James P. - 2009

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...

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Parental unemployment and child health in China

Pieters, Janneke; Rawlings, Samantha - 2016

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel …

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Early life environments and frailty in old age among Chinese older adults

Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2019

. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 …

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Sons or daughters? : the impact of children's migration on the health and well-being of parents left behind

Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...

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The impact of family co-residence and childcare on children's cognitive skill

Deng, Lanfang; Li, Haizheng; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2019

generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families …

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Growing into relative income poverty : urban China 1988 to 2013

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2019

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …

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Risk aversion and son preference : experimental evidence from Chinese twin parents

Chew, Soo-Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017

We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...

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Cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and school-to-work transitions in rural China

Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …

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Costly posturing : ceremonies and early child development in China

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017

household survey in rural China, this paper provides empirical evidence on the squeeze effect of gift giving. …

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