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Race and gender differences in the cognitive effects of childhood overweight

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference

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While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study

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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages? : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds

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Patience and achievement test results

Vogt, Benedikt - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 10/12, pp. 846-849

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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 19, pp. 1369-1373

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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances

Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014...

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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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