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Economic status and health in childhood: The origins of the gradient

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A Case, D Lubotsky… - 2001 - nber.org
We show that the well-known positive association between health and income in adulthood
has antecedents in childhood. Using the National Health Interview Surveys, the Panel Study
of Income Dynamics, and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we find ...
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Intertemporal choice and inequality

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A Deaton… - 1993 - nber.org
We show that standard models of intertemporal choice, including the permanent income
hypothesis, imply that for any given cohort of people born at the same time, inequality in both
consumption and income will grow with age. At any given date, each individual's ...
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The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance

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A Case, A Fertig… - Journal of health economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult
health, employment and socioeconomic status, using data from a birth cohort that has been
followed from birth into middle age. Controlling for parental income, education and social ...
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Using weather variability to estimate the response of savings to transitory income in Thailand

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CH Paxson - The American Economic Review, 1992 - JSTOR
Page 1. Using Weather Variability To Estimate the Response of Savings to Transitory
Income in Thailand By CHRISTINA H. PAXSON* This paper measures the extent
to which farmers are able to use savings and dissavings ...
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[BOOK] Do the poor insure?: a synthesis of the literature on risk and consumption in developing countries

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... Christina Paxson is in the Woodrow Wilson School and economics department of Princeton
University. The authors thank Timothy Besley, Angus Deaton, Jonathan Morduch, Chris Udry
and Brian Wright for helpful comments. Page 4. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. ...
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Economies of scale, household size, and the demand for food

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A Deaton… - Journal of political economy, 1998 - JSTOR
Household scale economics are plausibly attributed to shared household public goods that
make larger households better off at the same level of per capita resources. larger
households should therefore have higher per capita consumption of private goods, such ...
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Stature and status: Height, ability, and labor market outcomes

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A Case… - 2006 - nber.org
It has long been recognized that taller adults hold jobs of higher status and, on average,
earn more than other workers. A large number of hypotheses have been put forward to
explain the association between height and earnings. In developed countries, researchers ...
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[PDF] Mortality, education, income, and inequality among American cohorts

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AS Deaton… - 2001 - nber.org
Trying to understand why mortality is so strongly related to socioeconomic status (SES) has
been a major concern in demography, epidemiology, and public health for many years, and
is beginning to attract the attention of economists. Data from the National Longitudinal ...
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Orphans in Africa: parental death, poverty, and school enrollment

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A Case, C Paxson… - Demography, 2004 - Springer
Abstract We examine the impact of orphanhood on children's school enrollment in 10 sub-
Saharan African countries. Although poorer children in Africa are less likely to attend school,
the lower enrollment of orphans is not accounted for solely by their poverty. We find that ...
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[PDF] Saving, growth, and aging in Taiwan

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AS Deaton… - 1994 - nber.org
This paper examines issues of life-cycle saving, growth, and aging in Taiwan. We are mainly
concerned with standard issues of life-cycle saving and their implications for the living
standards of the elderly. We investigate whether saving appears to be motivated by life- ...
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Labor supply preferences, hours constraints, and hours-wage tradeoffs

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JG Altonji… - 1987 - nber.org
In a labor market in which firms offer tied hours-wage packages and there is substantial
dispersion in the wage offers associated with a particular type of job, the best job available
to a worker at a point in time may pay well but require an hours level which is far from the ...
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Aging and inequality in income and health

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AS Deaton… - The American Economic Review, 1998 - JSTOR
Page 1. Aging and Inequality in Income and Health By ANGUS S. DEATON AND
CHRISTINA H. PAXSON * In our previous work, Deaton and Paxson (1994, 1997),
we showed that, in a large group of countries, inequality in ...
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Women's work and economic development

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K Mammen… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000 - JSTOR
W v romen's labor force status relative to that of men is an important bench-mark of their
status in society. In developed economies, researchers seek to measure women's well-
being by examining factors influencing women's labor force participation, and by ...
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Sex differences in morbidity and mortality

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AC Case… - 2004 - nber.org
Women have worse self-rated health and more hospitalization episodes than men from early
adolescence to late middle age, but are less likely to die at each age. We use 14 years of
data from the US National Health Interview Survey to examine this paradox. Our results ...
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Consumption and income seasonality in Thailand

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CH Paxson - Journal of Political Economy, 1993 - JSTOR
Page 1. Consumption and Income Seasonality in Thailand Christina H. Paxson
Princeton University Many households in developing countries rely on seasonal
agricul- ture for their incomes. This paper investigates whether ...
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The effects of economic and population growth on national saving and inequality

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AS Deaton… - Demography, 1997 - Springer
... of Aging. We would like to thank two anonymous referees for useful comments.
Christina Paxson also thanks the Russell Sage Foundation for support. Demography,
Volume 34-Number 1, February 1997: 97-114 recent theoretical ...
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Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador

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C Paxson… - Journal of Human Resources, 2007 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract We examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic
status (SES), child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. We use a sample of
more than 3,000 predominantly poor preschool-aged children from Ecuador, and analyze ...
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Saving and growth: evidence from micro data

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C Paxson - European Economic Review, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether the observed cross-country correlation between aggregate
saving rates and economic growth can be explained by models in which higher growth
increases saving rates, rather than the other way around. There are two explanations why ...
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[PDF] Mortality, income, and income inequality over time in Britain and the United States

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AS Deaton… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper is concerned with the time-series patterns of mortality, income, and income
inequality in the United States and in Britain. One starting point is Deaton and Paxson
(2001), in which we used pooled time-series and cross-sectional data from the United ...
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Labor supply, hours constraints and job mobility

JG Altonji… - 1990 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPERS SERIES IABOR SUPPLY, HOURS
CONSTRAINTS AND JOB MOBILITY Joseph G. Altonji Christina H. Paxson Working
Paper No. 3474 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ...
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Growth and saving among individuals and households

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A Deaton… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000 - MIT Press
The lifecycle theory of saving and consumption predicts that changes in an economy's rate
of economic growth will affect its aggregate saving rate by changing the lifetime resources of
younger people relative to older people. However, studies that track the saving behavior ...
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Mothers and others: who invests in children's health?

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A Case… - 2000 - nber.org
We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using
data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling
for household size, income and characteristics, we find that children living with step ...
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Approximation bias in linearized Euler equations

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S Ludvigson… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001 - MIT Press
Page 1. APPROXIMATION BIAS IN LINEARIZED EULER EQUATIONS Sydney
Ludvigson and Christina H. Paxson* Abstract—A wide range of empirical applications
rely on linear approx- imations to dynamic Euler equations. ...
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Growth, demographic structure, and national saving in Taiwan

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A Deaton… - Population and Development Review, 2000 - JSTOR
THIS CHAPTER IS concerned with the effects that changes in demographic structure have
had on Taiwan's national saving rate, and how coming changes in its age structure notably
population aging-will affect the future saving rate. We examine this topic within the ...
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Work, welfare, and child maltreatment

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C Paxson… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of
parents.'Child maltreatment'encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect
children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of abuse or ...
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The dynamics of dual-job holding and job mobility

CH Paxson… - 1994 - nber.org
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From cradle to grave? The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance

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A Case, A Fertig… - 2003 - nber.org
We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult
health and earnings, using data from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into
middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes, educations and social status, that ...
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Child health and economic crisis in Peru

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C Paxson… - The World Bank Economic Review, 2005 - World Bank
Abstract The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy
importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It
finds an increase of about 2.5 percentage points in the infant mortality rate for children ...
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The allocation and impact of social funds: spending on school infrastructure in Peru

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C Paxson… - The World Bank Economic Review, 2002 - World Bank
Abstract Between 1992 and 1998 the Peruvian Social Fund (foncodes) spent about US $570
million funding microprojects throughout the country. Many of these projects involved
constructing and renovating school facilities. This article uses data from foncodes, the ...
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[PDF] Do the poor insure

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H Alderman… - A synthesis of the literature on …, 1992 - www-wds.worldbank.org
Policy ResearchWorkingPapers disseminatethe findings of work in progress a-id encourage
the exchangeof ideas among Bank staffand allothers interested in developmentissues.
Thesepapers. distibutedby the Research Advisory Staff, carry thenames ofthe authors, ...
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[CITATION] The economies of Africa and the prices of their exports

M Gersovitz… - Princeton Studies in International …, 1990 - ideas.repec.org
... Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics. Author Info.
GERSOVITZ, M. PAXSON, CH Additional information is available for the following registered
author(s): Christina Paxson. Abstract. No abstract is available for this item. Download Info. ...
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Height, health, and cognitive function at older ages

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A Case… - The American Economic Review, 2008 - JSTOR
Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and cir?
cumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero
and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face ...
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Job characteristics and hours of work

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JG Altonji… - 1986 - nber.org
This paper provides evidence that hours of work are heavily influenced by the particular job
which a person holds. The empirical work consists of a comparison of the variance in the
change in work hours across time intervals containing a job change with the variance in ...
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Borrowing constraints and portfolio choice

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C Paxson - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990 - JSTOR
This paper examines how borrowing ceilings in the personal loan market affect the portfolio
choice of consumers. Most papers on borrowing constraints do not address the question of
portfolio choice: it is typically assumed that all assets can be liquidated to finance ...
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Children's health and social mobility

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A Case… - The Future of Children, 2006 - JSTOR
Children from low-income families are more likely than other children to have serious health
problems. And, as Anne Case and Christina Paxson show, childhood health problems can
prevent poor children from achieving economic success as adults. Income-related ...
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Does money matter? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador

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N Schady… - Policy Research Working Paper, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The authors examine how a government-run cash transfer program targeted to
poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children. This
program is of particular interest because, unlike other transfer programs that have been ...
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Welfare reforms, family resources, and child maltreatment

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C Paxson… - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper examines the impact of welfare reforms on several measures of child
maltreatment. The authors use state-level data from 1990 to 1998 to examine whether recent
welfare reforms have increased or reduced the incidence of reported and substantiated ...
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Parental resources and child abuse and neglect

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C Paxson… - The American Economic Review, 1999 - JSTOR
A child's welfare is affected not only by the wealth of her parents, but also by the quality of
care her parents provide. Physical abuse, neglect, and other forms of child maltreatment
impose severe hardships on children and may adversely affect them as adults (Cathy ...
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Measuring poverty among the elderly

A Deaton… - 1995 - nber.org
Poverty counts are counts of individuals in poverty but are calculated from household or
family data on income or expenditure. The transition from one to the other requires
assumptions about intrahousehold allocation, about differences in needs across different ...
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Parental behavior and child health

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A Case… - Health Affairs, 2002 - Health Affairs
In this paper we document the ways in which parental behavior and socioeconomic status
affect children's health. We examine parental behavior in both the prenatal period and
childhood. We present evidence on the correlation of this behavior with income and ...
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Opening Doors. A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College.

S Scrivener, D Bloom, A LeBlanc, C Paxson… - MDRC, 2008 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This report discusses the implementation of the Opening Doors Learning
Communities and its effects on students up to two years after they entered the study.
Freshmen in this" learning community" at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, ...
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Relative income, race, and mortality

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DL Miller… - Journal of Health Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between relative income and mortality. Our research is
motivated by recent literature that posits that, holding individual income fixed, those whose
income are low relative to the incomes of those in a reference group will have worse ...
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Causes and consequences of early life health

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A Case… - 2010 - nber.org
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 ...
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[PDF] Health, income, and inequality over the life cycle

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AS Deaton… - 1998 - nber.org
In previous work, Deaton and Paxson (1994, 1997), we used data from the United States,
Great Britain, Taiwan, and Thailand to document that inequality increases within cohorts with
age, for consumption, income, and earnings. In this paper, we extend the analysis to two ...
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Income and child development

LM Berger, C Paxson… - Working Papers, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
We examine how income influences pre-school children's cognitive and behavioral
development, using new data from a birth cohort study of children born at the end of the 20th
century. On average, low income children have lower PPVT scores, more mother-reported ...
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[PDF] Social security and inequality over the life cycle

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AS Deaton, PO Gourinchas… - 2002 - nber.org
This chapter explores the consequences of Social Security reform for the inequality of
consumption across individuals. The basic idea is that inequality is at least in part the
consequence of individual risk in earnings or asset returns. In each period, each person ...
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[CITATION] Do the poor insure?: A synthesis of the literature on risk sharing institutions in developing countries

H Alderman… - Manuscript, World Bank, 1992
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Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents

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L Richburg Hayes, T Brock, A LeBlanc, C Paxson… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This report describes the impacts of a performance-based scholarship program
with a counseling component on academic success and persistence among low-income
parents. Students who participated in the program, which was operated at two New ...
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Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru

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C Paxson… - … Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. …, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The effect of economic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance.
Paxson and Schady use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze
the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and ...
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[PDF] Introducing the issue

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C Paxson, E Donahue, CT Orleans… - The Future of …, 2006 - futureofchildren.org
The child welfare system in each state typically involves public agencies, such as
departments of child and family services, which investigate reports of child maltreatment;
private and not-for-profit organizations, which provide services to families; family courts, ...
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Early life health and cognitive function in old age

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A Case… - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
Child health in the United States improved dramaticallyover the twentieth century. Data from
the National Center for Health Statistics indicate the infant mortality rate was 23 times
greater in 1900 than in 2004. The mortality rate of one-to four-year-old children, although ...
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[PDF] Welfare reforms, family resources, and child maltreatment

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C Paxson… - … programs and the well-being of …, 2001 - wws-roxen.princeton.edu
Abstract This paper examines the impact of welfare reforms on several measures of child
maltreatment. We use state-level data from 1990 to 1998 to examine whether recent welfare
reforms have increased or reduced the incidence of reported and substantiated cases of ...
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The income gradient in children's health: A comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

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A Case, D Lee… - Journal of Health Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper re-examines differences found between income gradients in American and
English children's health, in results originally presented by [Case, A., Lubotsky, D., Paxson,
C., 2002. Economic status and health in childhood: the origins of the gradient. American ...
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[PDF] Patterns of aging in Thailand and Côte d'Ivoire

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AS Deaton… - 1992 - nber.org
This paper presents and discusses some facts about older people in two contrasting
developing countries, C6te d'Ivoire and Thailand. We shall be concerned with standard
questions in the aging literature, namely, demographic structure, living arrangements, ...
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[BOOK] Fighting obesity in the public schools

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R Haskins, CH Paxson, E Donahue… - 2006 - princeton.edu
... 1 POLICY BRIEF SPRING 2006 Fighting Obesity in the Public Schools Ron Haskins, Christina
Paxson, and Elisabeth Donahue ... Christina Paxson is a senior editor of The Future of Children
and direc- tor of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. ...
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[CITATION] Consumption smoothing and income seasonality in rural India

S Chaudhuri… - Working Papers, 1993 - econpapers.repec.org
... EconPapers has moved to http://EconPapers.repec.org! Please update
your bookmarks. Consumption Smoothing and Income Seasonality
in Rural India. S. Chaudhuri and Christina Paxson. ...
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[HTML] Returning to new orleans after hurricane katrina

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C Paxson… - The American economic review, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hurricane Katrina displaced approximately 650,000 people and destroyed or severely
damaged 217,000 homes along the Gulf Coast. Damage was especially severe in New
Orleans, and the return of displaced residents to this city has been slow. The fraction of ...
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[BOOK] Do school facilities matter?: the case of the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES)

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CH Paxson, NR Schady… - 1999 - cid.harvard.edu
Page 1. 1 Do school facilities matter? The case of the Peruvian Social Fund
(FONCODES) Christina Paxson* and Norbert Schady** September 28, 19991 Abstract
Since its creation in 1991, the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES ...
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Making sense of the labor market height premium: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

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A Case, C Paxson… - Economics Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
We use data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine the labor market premium
in height. Most of the premium is explained by higher average educational attainment and
sorting into higher-status occupations and industries by those who are taller.
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Income and child development

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LM Berger, C Paxson… - Children and youth services review, 2009 - Elsevier
We examine how income is associated with the home environments and the cognitive and
behavioral development of pre-school children using data from a birth cohort study of
children born at the end of the 20th century. Lower-income 3-year-old children are more ...
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Assessing parenting behaviors across racial groups: Implications for the child welfare system

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LM Berger, M McDaniel… - Social Service Review, 2005 - JSTOR
Black families are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system. This may in
part result from racial bias in judgments made by those who report and investigate child
maltreatment. However, little is known about how race influences judgments about ...
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[CITATION] Does money matter?

CH Paxson… - 2007 - The World Bank, Development …
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First-year maternal employment and child outcomes: Differences across racial and ethnic groups

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L Berger, J Brooks-Gunn, C Paxson… - Children and youth …, 2008 - Elsevier
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine associations
between first-year maternal employment and child outcomes for 3-year-old White, Black, and
Hispanic children (N= 1483). Results from OLS regressions and propensity score ...
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[PDF] Saving and growth: another look at the cohort evidence

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AS Deaton… - Princeton, United States: Princeton …, 1998 - princeton.edu
Page 1. Saving and growth: another look at the cohort evidence Angus Deaton
Christina Paxson Research Program in Development Studies Princeton University
February 1998 We are grateful to Bo Honoré for help in selecting ...
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Does money matter? The effects of cash transfers on child development in rural Ecuador

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C Paxson… - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010 - JSTOR
Abstract A large body of research indicates that child development is sensitive to early-life
environments, so that poor children are at higher risk for poor cognitive and behavioral
outcomes. These developmental outcomes are important determinants of success in ...
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Engel's what? A response to Gan and Vernon

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A Deaton… - Journal of Political Economy, 2003 - JSTOR
Their description of the puzzle is unclear, so we start by restating it. The essence of the
matter is this. Imagine two households, one of which is larger than the other, for example,
containing the same age and sex composition of people, but with twice as many of ...
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[CITATION] Saving, aging and growth in Taiwan

A Deaton… - Studies in the Economics of Aging, David Wise ed. …, 1994
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[BOOK] Is African manufacturing skill-constrained?

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H Pack… - 1999 - books.google.com
... Skill-Constrained? Howard Pack Christina Paxson Continued efforts to develop
high-level industrial skills in Sub-Saharan African countries may be wasteful without
a more competitive environment in the industrial sector. But ...
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Relative income, race, and mortality

D Miller… - Working Papers, 2001 - ideas.repec.org
The topic of this paper is the relationship between relative income and health. We examine
whether people whose incomes are high relative to others who live in the same geographic
area have lower or higher mortality. This analysis holds own income fixed, so the question ...
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The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys

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A Case… - 2009 - nber.org
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen
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(DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of ...
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S Chaudhuri… - Discussion Paper, Columbia University, 2002 - princeton.edu
Abstract Rural households in many developing economies have incomes that vary
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consumption. We use household-level data from three Indian villages to document ...
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A Case… - The Economic Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
2. This article has been written for Professor Angus Deaton's festschrift, celebrating his
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Abstract This study used data on 2,297 families from the Fragile Families and Child
Wellbeing Study to examine whether Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement varies by
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Page 1. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES, VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2, PP. 199-227 The
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Abstract Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age
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status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children's health. To that ...
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The purpose of this study was to document changes in mental and physical health among
392 low-income parents exposed to Hurricane Katrina and to explore how hurricane-related
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A major goal of social science is to influence public policy by generating practical
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[BOOK] Inter-industry labor mobility in Taiwan, China

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Since its creation in 1991, the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES) has spent about US $ 570
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