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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369257
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350368
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Human capital, schooling and health returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613259
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Inclusive growth and health
James, Chris; Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - 2017
In response to observed growing inequalities in income and other dimensions of well-being, including health, the OECD … different socioeconomic groups. This paper links health to the overall inclusive growth agenda. It assesses the two …-way relationship between health and socioeconomic factors. An empirical health production function is specified, using data from 35 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822310
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Growing in the womb : the effect of seismic activity on fetal growth
Álvarez, Rocío; Chirkova, Serafima; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2018
We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914067
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Poverty and survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312901
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Fetal growth and neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014
Using a sample of sibling pairs from a nationally representative U.S. survey, we examine the effects of the fetal growth rate on a set of neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood measured by parent-reported diagnosed developmental disabilities and behavior problems. Based on models that include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412750
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Income growth and its distribution from Eisenhower to Obama : the growing importance of in-kind transfers (1959-2016)
Elwell, James; Corinth, Kevin; Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2019
We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline in the market income of the middle class (measured...
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Sample-selection bias and height trends in the nineteenth-century United States
Zimran, Ariell - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895670
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Health and knowledge externalities : implications for growth and public policy
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937557