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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order : British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2008
. -- Child health ; heights ; poverty …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646729
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size, and Birth Order : British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This article examines the effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardized heights and body mass index (BMI) of … that birth order and family size have negative effects on the heights of children, but not on their BMI. Household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149766
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order : British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2021
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325364
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Born to win? : the role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities
Madden, David - 2013
of the distribution. Analysis of the incidence of low birthweight and short birthlength using measures from the poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791107
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Parental income and child health in Germany
Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009
We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271103
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276775
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Herdis … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279935
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275959
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Household size, birth order and child health in Botswana
Mmopelwa, David - 2019
One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource dilution hypothesis, according to which large sizes and high child birth order are likely to have negative effects. However, there are arguments that the assumption of a fixed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102357
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Will you marry me ... if our children are healthy? : the impact of maternal age and the associated risk of having a child with health problems on family structure
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019
Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159275