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understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …
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substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …
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-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …
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variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income …
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This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative influences. We begin with a brief overview of the theory which illustrates that evidence of a causal relationship...
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This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
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