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A tax on children? : food price inflation and health
Woldemichael, Andinet; Kidane, Daniel; Shimeles, Abebe - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990112
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
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Are the effects of height on well-being a tall tale?
Denny, Kevin - 2015
Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good …-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of life …-satisfaction. In simple models there is a positive but concave relationship between height and life satisfaction. However it is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392110
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Parental human capital investments in their children and the government debt : an inter-generational analysis
Park, Donghyun - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000602485
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Do teachers make better parents? : The differential performance of teachers' children at school
Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002689345
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Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy
Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002122659
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Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment
Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002075141
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War, marriage markets and the sex ratio at birth
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387944
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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256298
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Sons, daughters, and labor supply in early twentieth-century Hawaii
Halliday, Timothy; La Croix, Sumner J. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233913