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We analyse the content of Italian occupations operating in about 600 sectors with a focus on the dimensions that expose workers to contagion risks during the COVID-19 epidemics. To do so we leverage extremely detailed and granular information from ICP, the Italian equivalent of O*Net. We find...
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manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health … researching child begging. A scale was developed to quantify forced child begging based on the International Labour Organization … stop begging. It was found that forced child begging was positively associated with living with unknown people, hunger due …
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the intergenerational associations between NRPS and health among grandchildren. We find NRPS substantially increases child … weight without impacting height. Overall, the child BMI z score increases by 0.87, which is largely driven by grandfathers …
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documented practice that, in preindustrial societies, finds its biological justification as a means to safeguard child survival …; lengthens birth intervals though not sufficiently to meet recommended guidelines; and increases neonatal death and child … the biologi- cal rationale for postpartum abstinence as a means to protect child health, while aligning with …
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Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and candidate instrumental variables are likely imperfect. We use...
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Disparities in cognition persist between non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences stemming from structural racism. However, the relationship between school racial segregation and...
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This paper explores whether individuals that grew up in adverse environments are more likely to engage in excessive use of social media later in life. We rely on a novel EU-wide survey that comprises information on social media usage time, patterns, motivations, and potential overuse, together...
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We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...
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This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational...
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