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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …

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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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Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2022

Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both genders at 16 and 9% (15%) for males (females) at 18. These results are...

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Trap'd Teens : Impacts of Abortion Provider Regulations on Fertility & Education

Jones, Kelly; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2022

Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this...

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Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2022

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...

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Teenage Mother'S Health Across Different Life Stages

Kalb, Guyonne; Vu, Ha - 2021

Many women who give birth during their teenage years face lifetime disadvantages in health, social and economic domains. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is important to understand how the disadvantage evolves over time to target the timing of any interventions....

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What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention

Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016

We study the impact of targeted high quality preschool over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the timing of program implementation between 1933 and 1960,...

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Violence While in Utero : The Impact of Assaults During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Currie, Janet M. - 2018

Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...

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Domestic Violence and Child Mortality

Rawlings, Samantha - 2018

We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data across thirty two different developing countries. We start by examining associations between interpersonal violence and child mortality while controlling for...

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Prenatal Exposure to Heat Waves and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bratti, Massimiliano; Frimpong, Prince Boakye; Russo, Simone - 2021

This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using a novel indicator of heat waves (the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily). Leveraging several geo-referenced waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with...

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