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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … that the employment of graduates in non-graduate jobs has declined over time. Hence, there is no evidence of an over …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches …
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Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
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outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully...
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state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
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education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed occupational demands (German Employment Survey 2006), we have a unique … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the …
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