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The gender reference point gap
Kettlewell, Nathan; Levy, Jonathan; Tymula, Agnieszka; … - 2023
Studies have frequently found that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, we depart from usual practice in economics that treats risk attitude as a primitive, and instead adopt a neuroeconomic approach where risk attitude is determined by the reference point which can be easily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279738
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Taxes, cigarette consumption and smoking intensity
Adda, Jérôme (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of nicotine measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287556
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John H.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307506
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Understanding sibling correlations in education : molecular genetics and family background
Fletcher, Jason; Lu, Qiongshi; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Song, Jie - 2023
combined effects of shared sibling background and experiences, including genetics and family environments. The UK Biobank … allows us to specifically control for sibling and parental genetics (polygenic scores, PGS) in order to gauge their relative …%) contributions of molecular genetics to the similarity of sibling outcomes, suggesting a large amount of the observed similarity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499421
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Biology and gender in the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016
endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and iv) sensory functioning and time-space perceptions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594118
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Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records
Chang, Harrison; Halliday, Timothy; Lin, Ming-Jeng; … - 2023
We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent health by applying principal components analysis to a set of indicators for 13 broad ICD categories...
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Poor little rich kids? : the determinants of the intergenerational transmission of wealth
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
inheritance, there is a substantial role for environment and a much smaller role for genetics. We also examine the role played by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308579
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Schooling, family background, and adoption : is it nature or is it nurture?
Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339672
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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629598
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028