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Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies
Zeckhauser, Richard; Wernerfelt, Nils; Slusky, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
One in twelve Americans suffers from asthma and its annual costs are estimated to exceed $50 billion. Simultaneously, the root causes of the disease remain unknown. A recent hypothesis speculates that maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy affect the probability the fetus later develops...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950848
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
Tekin, Erdal; Herbst, Chris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025620
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Tekin, Erdal; Herbst, Chris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321295
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227910
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Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health
Aizer, Anna; Stroud, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health. Our focus is the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health - the first widely publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health. Using an historical dataset that includes the smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634673
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Public Health Insurance, Program Take-Up, and Child Health
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for poor families, but not enrolled. In response, policy efforts to improve coverage have shifted to increasing Medicaid take-up among those already eligible rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050059
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development, obesity and possibly risky behaviors such as smoking or drinking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084792
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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227911
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Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data limitations and methodological problems associated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634631