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Social Comparisons and Adolescent Body Misperception : Evidence from School Entry Cutoffs
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide novel evidence on the role of social comparisons in shaping adolescent body misperception. Using an instrumental variables approach leveraging variation in relative age generated by school entry cutoff months and data from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study, we show...
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Trends in the School Lunch Program : Changes in Selection, Nutrition & Health
Bonomo, Therese; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287388
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"There She Is, Your Ideal" Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide novel evidence on the role of negative social comparisons in population health behaviors by exploiting variation in Miss America and Miss USA beauty pageant winners. We show that there was more front-page newspaper coverage and more pageant-related internet search behavior following a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250173
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Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435161
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Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC
Bergeron, Augustin; Bessone, Pedro; Kabeya Kabeya, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The assignment of workers to tasks and teams is a key margin of firm productivity and a potential source of state effectiveness. This paper investigates whether a low-capacity state can increase its tax revenue by optimally assigning its tax collectors. We study the two-stage random assignment...
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Correlation in State and Local Tax Changes
Baker, Scott; Janas, Pawel; Küng, Lorenz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Empirical research in public economics, including our own, often uses variation in state and local taxes as an empirical laboratory to estimate causal relationships. A key concern is that other taxes might change at the same time. To assess this concern, we develop a dataset of state (1977-2022)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056110
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Revenue Statistics: Estonia (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Estonia. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323801
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Revenue Statistics in Africa: Seychelles (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Seychelles. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323872
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Revenue Statistics: France (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by France. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323881
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Revenue Statistics: Italy (Edition 2022)
OECD - 2022
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Italy. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323891