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When reality bites : local deaths and vaccine take-up

Giulie i, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2021

In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity. We nd that vaccination take-up as of...

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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018

iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of … not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the heterogeneity in …

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The impact evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (new school) program on students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference

Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021

While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...

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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. …

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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates : the role of personality traits

Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022

It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and...

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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...

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Effects of peers and rank on cognition, preferences, and personality

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...

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