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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021

people’s lifestyles have exacerbated the challenges of improving population diet and reducing obesity levels. …

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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil

Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015

This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...

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Growing in the womb : the effect of seismic activity on fetal growth

Álvarez, Rocío; Chirkova, Serafima; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2018

We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...

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The consequences of miscarriage on parental investments

Bütikofer, Aline; Coy, Deidre; Doyle, Orla; Ginja, Rita - 2024

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...

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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022

Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...

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I'm not fat, just too short for my weight : family child care and obesity in Germany

Mahler, Philippe - 2007

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother’s labor supply in childhood on young adults … increase in obesity. -- GSOEP ; obesity ; female labor supply ; child care ; sibling estimation …

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Breastfeeding and child development

Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children’s development in the first five years of life,...

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Parents' education and child body weight in France : the trajectory of the gradient in the early years

Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves - 2015

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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood

Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021

We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...

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Who benefits from free health insurance : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2023

We present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction and expansion of a large non-contributory health insurance program in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP). SP provided access to health services without co-pays to individuals with no Social Security protection. We...

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