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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891167

Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

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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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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009

. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 … allows us to estimate the causal effect of conditions at a certain age on adult height. Moreover, we compare siblings born …

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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy: A Double-Edged Sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

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Immigration background and the intergenerational correlation in education

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Nguyen, Trong-Ha - 2010

This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …

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