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The Impact of Education on Health Knowledge

Altindag, Duha Tore - 2010

The theory on the demand for health suggests that schooling causes health because schooling increases the efficiency of health production. Alternatively, the allocative efficiency hypothesis argues that schooling alters the input mix chosen to produce health. This suggests that the more educated...

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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior

Mocan, Naci H. - 2012

Using data from the NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behaviors, measured by smoking and heavy drinking. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behaviors, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Although cognition, as...

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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha Tore - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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Vengeance

Mocan, Naci H. - 2008

,000 individuals from 53 countries. Country characteristics (such as per-capita income, average education of the country, presence of … of the individuals influence vengeful feelings. The magnitude of vengeful feelings is greater for people in low-income …-crime areas of their country and people who are at the bottom 50% of their country's income distribution are more vengeful. The …

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Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China

Mocan, Naci H. - 2017

, however, that the "Dragon" effect on test scores is eliminated when we account for parents' expectations about their children …'s educational and professional success. We find that parents of Dragon children have higher expectations for their children in … comparison to other parents, and that they invest more heavily in their children in terms of time and money. Even though neither …

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