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Evidence on the efficacy of school-based incentives for healthy living
Cuffe, H.E.; Harbaugh, W.T.; Lindo, J.M.; Musto, G.; … - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1028-1036
We analyze the effects of a school-based program that offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the effect of the prizes, with variation in the timing of prize...
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Family inequality : diverging patterns in marriage, cohabitation, and childbearing
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A.; Stearns, Jenna E. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456338
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The long-run impacts of early childhood education : evidence from a failed policy experiment
DeCicca, Philip; Smith, Justin D. - 2011
"We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …
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Birth weight in the long run
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
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The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children
Cawley, John H.; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2012
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Assets, economic opportunity and toxic stress: A framework for understanding child and educational outcomes
Williams Shanks, Trina R.; Robinson, Christine - In: Economics of Education Review 33 (2013) C, pp. 154-170
, income and education. We introduce a model incorporating a range of theoretical and empirical literature about the …
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