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This paper deals with the data of dormitory students in National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College to demonstrate the existence of peer effects in academic performance. The data have unique advantages to avoid the difficulties of the self-selection problem and reflection problem. The...
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This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …
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This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
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We use individual data from SAGE and RLMS surveys to infer whether education has an effect on the health of Russian … is used to assess the former effect which implies profound changes in understanding individual's health and how health … care system works. The latter way means changes in the health-related behaviour, estimates for which are deduced by OLS …
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We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …
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This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601017
the extent to which differences in self-reported health across genders and education levels can be explained by the use of … health domains across the four countries, but to varying degrees. On the other hand, I find that the health disparities …
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older Americans from the Health and Retirement Study. Utilizing childhood residence data and cognitive assessment data (1995 … policies aimed at reducing segregation are crucial to address health inequities. Clinicians can leverage patients' early …
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older Americans from the Health and Retirement Study. Utilizing childhood residence data and cognitive assessment data (1995 … policies aimed at reducing segregation are crucial to address health inequities. Clinicians can leverage patients' early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015125119
We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis.We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016392