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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...

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Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies

Zeckhauser, Richard; Wernerfelt, Nils; Slusky, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

One in twelve Americans suffers from asthma and its annual costs are estimated to exceed $50 billion. Simultaneously, the root causes of the disease remain unknown. A recent hypothesis speculates that maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy affect the probability the fetus later develops...

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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Tekin, Erdal; Herbst, Chris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

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Public Health Insurance, Program Take-Up, and Child Health

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for poor families, but not enrolled. In response, policy efforts to improve coverage have shifted to increasing Medicaid take-up among those already eligible rather than...

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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Tekin, Erdal; Herbst, Chris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …

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Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health

Aizer, Anna; Stroud, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health. Our focus is the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health. Using an historical dataset that includes the smoking...

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Zhang, Junsen; Conti, Gabriella; Yi, Junjian; Heckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure

Akresh, Richard; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Caruso, German Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information on households’ distance from conflict sites—a more accurate measure of conflict exposure— and compares the impact on children exposed in utero versus after birth. The...

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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity

Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions:...

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