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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …
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Rewarding Commitment to Attend School : A Field Study with Indigenous Australian High School Students
Potia, Azhar Hussain - 2020
lower education achievement and socioeconomic advantage than their non-Indigenous counterparts. We find that the promise …
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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms
Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states...
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Small Group Instruction to Improve Student Performance in Mathematics in Early Grades : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021
We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction...
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The Impact of the “Coding Girls” Program on High School Students’ Educational Choices
Basiglio, Stefania; Boca, Daniela Del; Pronzato, Chiara - 2023
’ aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …
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Do they know what's at risk? Health risk perception among the Obese
Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2012
The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of disease risk perceptions among obese individuals. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel (ALP) to individual's...
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Right and Yet Wrong : A Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Germany's COVID-19 Containment Policy
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020
In order to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...
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Pandemic-Induced Wealth and Health Inequality and Risk Exposure
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; Mancy, … - 2021
The main waves of a pandemic and subsequent disease outbreaks in the following years influence the evolution of the distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption smoothing and precautionary behaviour associated...
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Financial Risk-Taking Under Health Risk
Bos, Björn; Drupp, Moritz A.; Meya, Jasper; Quaas, … - 2023
We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a representative sample of more than 5,000 Germans in five panel waves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploiting variation in local infections across time and space, we find that an...
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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Race- Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2019
This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in its oversubscribed magnet schools. The district had previously integrated its schools by conducting separate admissions lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black...
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