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have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
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local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
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poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …
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This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …
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substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives … that expected based on these policy incentives: over time East German mothers with low earnings potentials appear to adopt …We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …
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at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as … the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase …
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aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young children in developing countries? For whom …. Firstly, a brief discussion of the importance of early stimulation for young children in developing countries is provided …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …
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