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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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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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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
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Early-life circumstances and racial disparities in cognition for older Americans : the importance of educational quality and experiences
Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024
early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial disparities in late-life cognition … segregated schooling before college) is associated with 28.8%-39.7% of the racial disparities in cognition. Policies that improve … educational equity have the potential to reduce racial disparities in cognition into older ages. Clinicians may leverage early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557724
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Childhood circumstances and health of American and Chinese older adults : a machine learning evaluation of inequality of opportunity in health
Huo, Shutong; Feng, Derek; Gill, Thomas M.; Chen, Xi - 2024
Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement...
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Place of birth and cognitive function among older Americans : findings from the harmonized cognitive assessment protocol
Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2024
for 2.2-9.7% of the total variance in cognition after controlling for age, sex, and race/ethnicity, which declines to 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637545
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Socioeconomic conditions in childhood and mental health later in life
Angelini, Viola; Mierau, Jochen O.; Viluma, Laura - 2021
This chapter provides a narrative review of the literature relating socioeconomic circumstances early in life to mental health and well-being later in life. It starts by highlighting the various contributions focusing on associations, then moves on to the literature attempting to identify causal...
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age : comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...
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The implicit costs of motherhood over the lifecycle : cross-cohort evidence from administrative longitudinal data
Neumeier, Christian; Sørensen, Todd A.; Webber, Douglas A. - 2017 - This draft: February 14, 2017
lifecycle and between cohorts. We observe women who never have children beginning to out earn women who will have children … of two children also controls for age at first birth. Here, we find a decline in the gap from around $78,000 for our …
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