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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …, among women, the deterioration in mental health is similar for both BAME and British White individuals. Second, the gender … BAME groups. The BAME group of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani appears to be driving the difference in the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252463
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Building social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools : an intervention on perspective taking
Alan, Sule; Baysan, Ceren; Gumren, Mert; Kubilay, Elif - 2020
We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context where the ethnic composition in schools has changed due to a massive influx of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387528
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Recessions and occupational match quality : the role of age, gender, and education
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2020
actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …
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An investment-and-marriage model with differential fecundity
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2019
fecundity and an equilibrium marriage market form the basis of my explanation. The model also accounts for gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110230
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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test
Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996241
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Late 19th and early 20th century urban net nutrition by gender and race
Carson, Scott Alan - 2023
Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and weight are welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383762
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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study
D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008
We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751191
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Social exclusion and optimal redistribution
Aronsson, Thomas; Bastani, Spencer; Tayibov, Khayyam - 2021
We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed, in conjunction with optimal income taxation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694145
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Recession depression : mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - 2013
in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748354
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Effects of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes : a latent variable approach using multiple clinical indicators
Banerjee, Souvik; Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal - 2013
In this paper, we estimate the effect of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes using a structural equation model with a latent index for mental illness, an approach that acknowledges the continuous nature of psychiatric disability. We also address the potential endogeneity of mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748359