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Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar; van Ewijk, Reyn – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are 0.05 to 0.08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in early pregnancy. These estimates are downward biased to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pregnancy, Eating Habits, Islam