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The effect of the 2016 United States presidential election on employment discrimination

Gorzig, Marina Mileo; Rho, Deborah - 2020

We examine whether employment discrimination increased after the 2016 presidential election in the United States. We submitted fictitious applications to publicly advertised positions using resumes that are manipulated on perceived race and ethnicity (Somali American, African American, and white...

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018

To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this … birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS) to map out the time profile of the effect of childhood experiences on … adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over …

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Forced labor and health-related outcomes : the case of beggar children

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the...

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Grandfathers and grandsons : social security expansion and child health in China

Yang, Jinyang; Chen, Xi - 2024

weight without impacting height. Overall, the child BMI z score increases by 0.87, which is largely driven by grandfathers …

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Family planning and ethnic heritage : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Falco, Chiara - 2024

Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates coexist with low contraceptive use alongside ad- verse perinatal outcomes. Using a combination of ethnographic, ecological, and folklore data, we investigate the role played in...

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Income and fertility of female college graduates in the United States

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2024

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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School racial segregation and late-life cognition

Lin, Zhuoer; Wang, Yi; Gill, Thomas M.; Chen, Xi - 2024

older Americans from the Health and Retirement Study. Utilizing childhood residence data and cognitive assessment data (1995 …

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Adverse childhood experiences and social media use in adulthood : evidence from a novel EU survey

Kovacic, Matija; Orso, Cristina Elisa - 2024

childhood experiences. We find that adverse childhood environments, and especially the presence of close relatives with severe …. Adverse childhood environments have a disproportionate impact on passive overuse of digital social network platforms …, resulting in more frequent neglect of work and family responsibilities. Finally, we show that the effect of childhood conditions …

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

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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Impact of early childcare on immigrant children's educational performance

Corazzini, Luca; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2019

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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