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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size : 1980s to the present

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...

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The impact of paternity leave on long-term father involvement

Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy - 2010

Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers' long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway … in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota. Our analysis suggests that four weeks paternity leave during the child …'s first year decreases fathers' future earnings by 2.1 percent. Importantly, this effect persists up until our last point of …

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Peer effects in program participation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 2013

When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...

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He's a chip off the old block : the persistence of occupational choices across generations

Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2013

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers ́and childrenś occupational choices. We discuss policy …

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Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents

Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2011

In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave … on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … than the mother. We find no evidence that fathers' earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to …

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Recession depression : mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash

McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - 2013

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...

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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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Should individuals choose their own incentives? : evidence from a mindfulness meditation intervention

Woerner, Andrej; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Probst, Birgit M.; … - 2021

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effects of letting people choose from a menu of increasingly challenging incentive schemes. We derive the conditions under which a policy maker profits from leaving the choice to the individuals by leveraging their private information...

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Lost in the net? : broadband internet and youth mental health

Donati, Dante; Durante, Ruben; Sobbrio, Francesco; … - 2022

How does the internet affect young people’s mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using administrative data on the universe of cases of mental disorders diagnosed in Italian hospitals between 2001 and 2013, which we combine with information on the availability of...

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Tutoring in (online) higher education : experimental evidence

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022

Demand for personalized online tutoring in higher education is growing but there is little research on its effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small...

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