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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Conti, Gabriella - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Conti, Gabriella - 2015

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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction

Francesconi, Marco - 2016

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. And Europe : Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

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Why Doesn'T the Us Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J. - 2010

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Policies to promote human capital...

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