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Greek myth or fact? : the role of Greek houses in alcohol and drug violations on American campuses
Raghav, Manu; Diette, Timothy M. - 2021
Greek-letter student social groups, better known as fraternities and sororities, are a ubiquitous feature on many American higher education campuses. These organizations, especially fraternities, have a reputation for encouraging unruly and improper behavior among both members and non-members....
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Family structure and child outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Björklund, Anders (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children's outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the …
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well … been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …
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Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor : Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Dupas, Pascaline - 2020
children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481425
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Human capital investments in children : a comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score … ; USA ; treatment effects ; propensity score matching …
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Inequality during the early years : child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …
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Gender Differences in (some) Formative Inputs to Child Development
Baker, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482600
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) in the USA, to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248987
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Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States
Banks, James - 2011
In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Our analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461561