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This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during 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...
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For years Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program provided full tuition scholarships to high achieving students. State …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …
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Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....
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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
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The rapid growth of informal employment in China in recent decades has attracted attention, but to understand its implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried workers who have long-term contracts; the self-employed;...
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We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
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Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...
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adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses …' vulnerability. Latent class analysis was used to explore the vulnerability types, and weighted linear regressions examined the … relationship between vulnerability, aging attitudes and emotional responses. Results showed that the proportion for individuals …
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introduce new variations of a three-player Trust game in which we manipulate payoff vulnerability and endowment vulnerability …We investigate whether a player's guilt aversion is modulated by the co-players' vulnerability. To this goal, we …. The former is the traditional vulnerability which arises when a player's material payoff depends on another player …
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