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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...
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once the shock is over. Specifically, we focus on individuals who were children during World War II and assess the … individuals who as children were more exposed to meat scarcity tend to consume relatively more meat and spend more on food during … larger for women and persist intergenerationally, as the adult children of mothers who experienced meat scarcity similarly …
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This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
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Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …. Heterogeneity analysis indicates more pronounced effects for children from disadvantaged areas, earlier detection of vision problems …
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' 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 …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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Birth rates differ strongly across European states, https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/55902despite the deep economic harmonisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility patterns...
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In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on the propensity to own a home and the quality of housing....
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