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We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge...
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of a bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising … that our results are not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter's observable … attributes. Effective strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to …
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-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …
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This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in … China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over …
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poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …
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label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic … norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market …-oriented reforms, begun in 1978, helped China achieve unprecedented economic growth and at the same time Marxist ideology was gradually …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities …
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left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … sons migrate. We further explore the mechanism through which this gender-biased migration effect may arise. Our findings …
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decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …
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This study uses data from the 2012 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey and 2010-2012 China Family Panel Studies to … investigate job satisfaction and job expectations, as well as the association between job satisfaction and job turnover by gender … gender-job-satisfaction paradox encountered in Western studies. In contrast to Western research, we find no link between job …
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