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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Grogan, Louise - 2018

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule, and twenty five years of economic transition. Substantial contemporary birth masculinisation is concentrated amongst higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a...

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Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Svejnar, Jan; … - 2018

due to differences in how the business, institutional and policy environment translates firm characteristics into outcomes …

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Reported Progress under the Student Right-to-Know Act: How Reliable Is It?

Stratton, Leslie S.; Wetzel, James N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Student Right-to-Know Act requires colleges to provide institution-specific information on graduation rates for students initially enrolling full-time in the fall term. Not all students, however, initially enroll full-time or in the fall term. We use longitudinal data on academic,...

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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?

Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...

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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?

Molitor, David; White, Corey - 2023

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants, the economies of scale and density inherent to...

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On the Origins of Socio-Economic Inequalities: Evidence from Twin Families

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

evidence of gene-environment interactions. While we find some assortative mating based on genetic factors, differentially … nine percent. We find similar percentages for earnings, income, and wealth. Decomposing intergenerational elasticities … reveals that shared environments explain 50% for earnings, 60% for income, 70% for wealth, and 80% for schooling. Family …

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Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy: what can we learn from molecular genetics?

Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009

gene-environment interaction effects. This literature points out specific policy areas which may compensate individuals …

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