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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomlyassigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064400
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Measuring access and inequality of access to health care : a policy-oriented decomposition
Abatemarco, Antonio; Aria, Massimo; Beraldo, Sergio; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320902
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Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments
Schwardmann, Peter - 2017
People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698210
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Anatomy of a health scare : education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan (contributor); Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2009
One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short period, some publicized research suggested that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868137
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Early life exposure to measles and later-life outcomes : evidence from the introduction of a vaccine
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288296
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Fat city : the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity
Eid, Jean; Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Puga, Diego - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385183
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Die Situation von Industriebeschäftigten während der Corona-Pandemie: Ergebnisse der Beschäftigtenbefragung 2020 der IG Metall
Allmendinger, Jutta; Schroeder, Wolfgang - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518039
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Behavioural response to a sudden health risk : Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2017
Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...
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Discrimination against the obese and very thin students in Brazilian schools
Kubota, Luis Claudio - 2015
PeNSE 2012 is a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with the Ministry of Health. PeNSE covers a broad range of subjects, especially risk behavior. This article has the aim of analyzing discrimination against obese and very thin students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056998
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Spreading the disease : protest in times of pandemics
Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430924