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Individual behavior as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - 2013
hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
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Individual behaviour as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 372-393
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Chapter 15. Human capital development before age five
Currie, Janet; Almond, Douglas - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part B, (pp. 1315-1486). 2011
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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Essays in empirical health economics
Kruk, Kai Eberhard - 2011
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Understanding the SES gradient in health among the elderly : the role of childhood circumstances
Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - 2014
Individuals' socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this gradient may be uncontroversial, the same cannot be said about its explanation. In this paper, we extend the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels developed by...
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Understanding the SES gradient in health among the elderly : the role of childhood circumstances
Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - In: Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, (pp. 187-219). 2014
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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes
Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
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Ganztagsbetreuung von Kindern Alleinerziehender : Auswirkungen auf das Wohlergehen der Kinder, die ökonomische Lage der Familie und die Gesamtwirtschaft
Anger, Christina; Fischer, Mira; Geis, Wido; Lotz, Sebastian - 2012
In Deutschland leben etwa 1,6 Millionen Familien, die von einem alleinerziehenden Elternteil geführt werden. Durch frühkindliche Betreuung und Ganztagseinrichtungen ergeben sich bessere Bildungschancen speziell für die Kinder aus diesen Familien. Ganztagseinrichtungen haben aber auch einen...
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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 income the family has and statistically significant for children from the age …
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