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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865588
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386388
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792989
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950734
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735917
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna (contributor); Vella, Francis (contributor) - 2007
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646711
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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data are estimated to control for the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646722
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Determinants of integration and its impact on the economic success of immigrants : a case study of the Turkish community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M. (contributor); Ulku, Hulya (contributor) - 2008
Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763088