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Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but growing evidence on the external relevance of...

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Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …

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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 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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Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078673

Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …

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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

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Should Individuals Choose Their Own Incentives? Evidence from a Mindfulness Meditation Intervention

Woerner, Andrej; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Probst, Birgit M.; … - 2021

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effects of letting people choose from a menu of increasingly challenging incentive schemes. We derive the conditions under which a policy maker profits from leaving the choice to the individuals by leveraging their private information...

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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2014

We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are...

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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature …

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Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diﬀerent quality schools because their parents diﬀer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signiﬁcantly less likely to enter the...

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