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Chapter 56 The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries
Glewwe, Paul; Miguel, Edward A. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3561-3606). 2007
Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most … in developed countries. Recent research has shown that poor health and nutrition among children reduces their time in … health and nutrition on education, describes estimation problems and potential solutions, and summarizes recent empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024664
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252665
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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462133
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Prenatal sugar consumption and latelife human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369003
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976885
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 660-672
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in the socioeconomic … and public health environment into which children are born using individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to … data. We find that children are more likely to bear the penalty exerted by poor maternal health if they are conceived or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010086
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
S, Bhalotra; S, Rawlings - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in education, income … large sample of comparable data that exhibits massive variation in maternal and child health as well as in aggregate … economic conditions. Child health is indicated by infant survival. Our measure of maternal health is (relative) height …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963273