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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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This paper examines the effect of a decline in health on the savings and portfolio choice of young, working individuals … health, controlling for variables such as income, age, and out-of-pocket medical expenses. Unlike many previous papers, which … dismiss health and portfolio choice associations among retired individuals on the basis of unobserved heterogeneity, we find …
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education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of …
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U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of … by which sentencing policies can affect population health. We provide suggestive evidence that three strikes policies … further interrogate state criminal legal system policies for their impacts on population health, considering whether, how, and …
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explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the …. -- children ; infant health ; job loss ; displacement … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use …
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gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …
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forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child math/reading test score at …
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