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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2012

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...

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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints Under Labour Market Discrimination

Frijters, Paul - 2011

prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …

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Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults : A Research Note

Chen, Xi - 2022

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We then leverage the growing number of studies of the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence

Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022

This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life-cycle trajectories, uncertainty, and credit constraints....

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The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2017

This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It has substantial beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor...

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Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2017

This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with non-experimental data using economic models to forecast its life-cycle benefits. Our baseline estimate of the...

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Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2017

This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...

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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder

Banks, James W. - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Kautz, Tim - 2014

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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A Life Course Approach to Understanding Neighbourhood Effects

de Vuijst, Elise - 2016

Many theories on so-called neighbourhood effects – effects of the residential context on individual outcomes such as employment, education, and health – implicitly, or explicitly suggest lagged effects, duration effects, or for example, intergenerational effects of neighbourhoods. However,...

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