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Children Do Not Behave Like Adults: Gender Gaps in Performance and Risk Taking within a Random Social Context in the High-StakesGame Shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy

Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren - CESifo - 2014

Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …

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(Why) Do Self-Employed Parents Have More Children?

Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - CESifo - 2003

respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the … admissions for respiratory diseases among young children. …

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Statures, BMIs, and Weight: A Reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2013

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

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Bio-Demographic and Health Aspects of Ageing in the EU

Herce, José A.; Ahn, Namkee; Génova, Ricard; Pereira, … - CESifo - 2003

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …

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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2008

leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … manner consistent with epidemiologic studies, in contrast to much of the literature which assumes equal health effects for …

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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health

Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - CESifo - 2008

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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