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Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

II, Charles L. Baum - 2007

education. Conversely, little of the SES difference appears to be propagated through family income, marital status, number of … children, or the set of health behaviors we control for. However, approximately half of the SES-weight correlation persists …

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Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated?

Leive, Adam - 2020

We examine whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends during the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles. We document sharply differing gender patterns. Among women, mortality trends improved fairly monotonically with...

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Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race

Leive, Adam A.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine gender and race differences in education-mortality trends among 25-64 year olds in the United States from 2001-2018. The data indicate that the relationships are heterogeneous with larger mortality reductions for less educated non-Hispanic blacks than other races and mixed results at...

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Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions

Andreoni, James - 2019

We conduct experiments eliciting risk preferences with over 1,400 children and adolescents aged 3-15 years old. We … significantly greater risk aversion than adolescent boys. This pattern is not observed among young children, suggesting that the … (specifically math ability) are positively associated with risk taking. Executive functions among children, and soft skills among …

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