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Parental ethnic identity and child development
Campbell, Stuart; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Popli, Gurleen; … - 2019
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....
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Caught between cultures: unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple game-theoretic model which shows how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254022
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Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time : evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - 2013
and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition - episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364492
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Use it or lose it : Irish evidence
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
. As retirement is potentially endogenous with respect to cognition, instrumental variable (IV) methods are also used. The … estimations are used, the effect of retirement on cognition is negative but statistically insignificant. Differences between OLS …
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
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Air pollution and adult cognition: evidence from brain training
La Nauze, Andrea; Severnini, Edson R. - 2021
We exploit novel data from brain-training games to examine the impacts of air pollution on a comprehensive set of cognitive skills of adults. We find that exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) impairs adult cognitive function, and that these effects are largest for those in prime working age....
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the...
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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022
ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the … Midlife in United States Development Study Cognition Project. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264792
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Anemia, diet, and cognitive development: impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021
Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive outcomes of children in rural India. Using...
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