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Migration, health knowledge and teenage fertility : evidence from Mexico
Battaglia, Marianna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 179-206
Migrationmay affect fertility and child health care of those remaining in the country of origin.Mexican data show that …
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Road Access, Fertility and Child Health in Rural India
Dasgupta, Aparajita; Karandikar, Anahita; Raghav, Devvrat - 2022
fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district-level leads to … districts with erstwhile lower levels of FLFP, the effects on fertility and child health are driven by paved road access causing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264727
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Long-term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - 2013
the health of elderly born in the colonial period. To mitigate potential biases caused by measurement errors and omitted …
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Maternal stress and birth outcomes : evidence from an unexpected earthquake swarm
Menclova, Andrea Kutinova; Stillman, Steven - 2019
-range of birth outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age and an indicator of general newborn health. We control for … of having a late birth and negatively affected newborn health - with the largest effects for earthquakes that occurred in …
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Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes
Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Benedicte; Jung, Toni - Department of Economics, University of South Florida - 2014
health outcomes as adults. Using Census and DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa, we show that individuals conceived during heat …
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064990
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … backgrounds and boys. For individuals from high socioeconomic backgrounds, it might be driven by a better health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123526
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Family size and subjective well-being in Europe : do more children make us (un)happy?
Pertold-Gebická, Barbara; Špolcová, Dominika - 2019
of children and parental subjective well-being using two alternative measures: life satisfaction and a happiness index … positive as children get older in all European regions when happiness index is investigated and in all regions except for the …
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Prenatal Care and Birthweight in Mexico
Kumar, Santosh; Gonzalez, Fidel - 2022
We estimate the marginal impact of prenatal care (PNC) on birth outcomes in Mexico using nationally representative data …
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