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Does secular education impact religiosity, electoral participation and the propensity to vote for Islamic parties? : evidence from an education reform in a Muslim country

Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - 2014

Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...

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Fetal malnutrition and academic success : evidence from Muslim immigrants in Denmark

Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015

This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that some Muslim women might have fasted during Ramadan when they were … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional …

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Christianity and infant health in India

Menon, Nidhiya; McQueeney, Kathleen - 2015

This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian infants have higher height-for-age z-scores as compared to infants of other religious identities,...

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The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children

Cawley, John H.; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2012

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This...

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Birth weight in the long-run

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015

We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958,...

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The more the merrier? : The effect of family composition on children's education

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The long-run impact of childhood poverty and the mediating role of education

Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify those impacts and we provide a sensitivity analysis on possible unobserved confounders,...

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Understanding the mechanisms of parental divorce effects on child's higher education

Chen, Yen-Chien; Fan, Elliott; Liu, Jin-tan - 2021

We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that parental divorce occurring at ages 13-18 significantly...

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Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China

Zhang, Zheyuan; Xu, Hui; Liu, Ruilin; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in 2006, as a natural experiment on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills. The identification strategy relies on a difference-in-differences approach and exploits...

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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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