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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
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Riskonnected : social media, puberty and risky behaviours in adolescence
Agnoletto, Margherita; Della Giusta, Marina; Mendolia, … - 2025
We examine the impact of intensive social media use on puberty timing, particularly earlier menarche in girls. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a nationally representative longitudinal dataset tracking around 19,000 children in the UK, we analyse how digital engagement...
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The perils of returning to school : new insights into the seasonality of youth suicides
Chandler, Vincent; Heger, Dörte; Wuckel, Christiane - 2019
that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … robust to the inclusion of a series of control variables and to different definitions of youth. Overall, this paper suggests …
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Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses
Dohmen, Thomas; Rohde, Ingrid; Stolp, Tom - 2023
We conduct a laboratory experiment among male participants to investigate whether rewarding schemes that depend on work … payment scheme. Stress is measured over the entire course of the experiment at both the hormonal and psychological level … incentives schemes is not a relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248989
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Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses
Dohmen, Thomas; Rohde, Ingrid; Stolp, Tom - 2023
We conduct a laboratory experiment among male participants to investigate whether rewarding schemes that depend on work … payment scheme. Stress is measured over the entire course of the experiment at both the hormonal and psychological level … relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are severely elevated at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233666
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The community impact of school-shootings on stress-related emergency department visits
Gujral, Kritee; Ellyson, Alice M.; Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali; … - In: Contemporary economic policy : a journal of Western … 41 (2023) 3, pp. 455-470
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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies
Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023
Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333783
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Leveraging social comparisons : the role of peer assignment policies
Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023 - Revised version, August 2023
Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331894
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Application of Belsky’s Parenting Stress Model to Hispanic Mothers: A Racial and Ethnic Comparative Analysis
Cardoso, Jodi Berger; Sampson, McClain; Padilla, … - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
Maternal parenting stress is associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and marital satisfaction, poor parent-child communication and disruptive child behavior. Belsky’s process model of parenting suggests that stress is influenced by three domains: maternal, child and contextual...
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Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women smoke. Men are the major income earners in most Chinese...
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