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Empirical essays on the long-term consequences of early infant conditions for health, productivity, and family formation

Walliczek, Katharina - 2017

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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences

Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 86-96

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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17

characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative …

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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences

Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013

height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

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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 - 2014

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...

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Height and cognition at work : labor market productivity in a low income setting

LaFave, Daniel; Thomas, Duncan - 2016

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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...

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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform

Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017

We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference- in-differences design to estimate the...

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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England

Knies, Gundi - 2017

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their family has. Income effects are larger the less...

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What do we really know about trends in outpatient medical expenditures for children, 1977 to 1987?

Rapaport, Carol; Trenholm, Christopher A. - 2000

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