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According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range...
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We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
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relationship between child access prevention (CAP) laws and firearm-related homicides committed by juveniles. Our results suggest …
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Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work … find substantial variation in subsidy effects across the BMI distribution. In particular, child care subsidies have no … at the top of the distribution. Our results point to the use of non-parental child care, particularly centerbased …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
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receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy … provides an empirical application in which we use variation in families' travel distance to identify the causal effect of child …
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