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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it … aspects and simultaneity, we estimate using the FIML method, which provides some improvement to the quality of the estimation …
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We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it … aspects and simultaneity, we estimate using the FIML method, which provides some improvement to the quality of the estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755510
The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this …
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The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...
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size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … Manila metropolitan area were not affected by the ban, this allows us to implement a difference-in-difference estimation of …
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784106
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more selfjustification to lie. …
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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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