Towering Intellects? Sizing up the relationship between height and academic success [0.03%]
智力威势？体型与学业成就之间的关系探究
Stephanie Coffey,Amy Ellen Schwartz
Stephanie Coffey
Do tall students do better in school? A robust literature documents higher earnings among taller people and suggests that differences in adult labor market outcomes may reflect prior differences in academic outcomes. In this paper, we use u...
The impact of individuals' preventive behaviours on health and healthcare utilisation [0.03%]
个体预防保健行为对健康和医疗服务利用的影响分析
Aarushi Dhingra,Gianluca Fiorentini,Luke Connelly
Aarushi Dhingra
We investigate the impact of preventative health behaviour of an individual, colon screening, on health outcomes and healthcare utilisation. We employ an instrumental variable approach to address the circularity in this relationship, using ...
Second generation effects of an experimental conditional cash transfer program on early childhood human capital in Nicaragua [0.03%]
尼加拉瓜一项实验性有条件现金转移支付项目对第二代早期童年人力资本的影响
Tania Barham,Oscar M Díaz-Botía,Karen Macours et al.
Tania Barham et al.
Interventions targeting improvements in human capital are often motivated by their potential to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty from parents to children. This study contributes to the thin evidence base on these links by...
Changes in child height and open defecation in rural India: Understanding improvements between the two most recent demographic surveys [0.03%]
农村印度儿童身高变化和露天排便：了解最近两次人口调查之间的改进情况
Sangita Vyas,Anna Vera
Sangita Vyas
Rural Indian children are exceptionally short by international standards. However, between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the average rural child's height increased by about one-fifth of a standard deviation, a more rapid increase than previous years...
The impact of extreme high temperatures on ADRD hospitalization in Guangdong, China, 2017-2019 [0.03%]
极端高温对2017-2019年广东省ADRD住院的影响
Caiyi Zhao,Xin Zhang,Chao Ma et al.
Caiyi Zhao et al.
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) have emerged as a major global health challenge due to the aging population. This study is among the first to investigate the impact of extreme high temperatures on ADRD hospitalization in a ...
Timothy Ludlow,Jonas Fooken,Christiern Rose et al.
Timothy Ludlow et al.
We examine the impact of housing insecurity on mental health. We use missed rental payments due to a shortage of money as a direct measure of housing insecurity and a difference-in-differences framework that allows us to differentiate the e...
Emma Aguila,Raquel Fonseca
Emma Aguila
This study explores how basic income (a non-contributory pension program) for the elderly affects the health of retired workers who were self-employed or salaried workers. Differences in health between these groups may arise because of the ...
Hyunkuk Cho
Hyunkuk Cho
The literature suggests that parents intentionally time births, with one example being the increase in births during auspicious years according to Chinese cultural beliefs. We examine births, particularly those of girls, in 2007, a year con...
Gender gaps in early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean [0.03%]
拉丁美洲及加勒比地区儿童早期发展性别差距
Samuel Berlinski,Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano,Alba Sóñora-Noya
Samuel Berlinski
We examine gender gaps in early childhood cognitive and social-behavioral skills across several Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Our study complements previous research focused on older children by analyzing the preschool perio...
Joe Spearing
Joe Spearing
This paper explores the relationship between work-related autonomy and mental health. Using Understanding Society data from the United Kingdom, I assess the association between mental health and autonomy, defined across five different dimen...