We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …

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 …

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 …

-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …

to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …

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. …

and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …

We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the … matching estimators, we found that health events have a strong impact on individual labor market histories. The workers … health events. …