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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in …
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292383
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294373
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …
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skills as well as health and household characteristics. We find that higher cognitive skills are associated with more …
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Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369244
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …
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How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption … liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter? Despite the acute concern … of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject matter empirically void …
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Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health …-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world …. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. This paper complements existing …
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