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Learning hope and optimism : classmate experiences and adolescent development

Fletcher, Jason; Kim, Jinho - 2018

adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of maltreatment by adults, both for the … adolescent and his/her classmates. While all types of individual experiences with maltreatment reduce adolescent hopefulness …, maltreatment domains most likely to be visible (i.e physical abuse) by classmates also reduce adolescent hopefulness. This …

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Origins of adulthood personality : the role of adverse childhood experiences

Fletcher, Jason; Schurer, Stefanie - 2017

We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health … and genetic factors. We find that maltreatment experiences are significantly and robustly associated with neuroticism … adolescent health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences …

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Inequity in child mental healthcare use

Black, Nicole; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; … - 2024

We study the extent of horizontal inequity in children's mental healthcare use in Australia, where universal insurance aims to provide equitable access to needed treatment, regardless of ability to pay. We use linked longitudinal survey data and administrative records that measure the need for...

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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China

Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates why the use of social network to...

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Accounting for peer effects in treatment response

Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera, Felipe - 2014

When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...

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Relative age effect on European adolescents' social network

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...

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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China

Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017

The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban...

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Job matching, social network and word-of-mouth communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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It's all about connections : evidence on network formation

Falk, Armin (contributor); Kosfeld, Michael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Do oppositional identities reduce employment for ethnic minorities?

Battu, Harminder (contributor); Mwale, MacDonald (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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