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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices : A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
Belot, Michèle - 2015
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
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Women in Political Power and School Closure During COVID Times
Danzer, Natalia; Garcia-Torres, Sebastian; Steinhardt, … - 2023
This study explores the relationship between women's representation in political power and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a cross-country dataset in Europe, we document a striking negative relationship between the share of female members in national governments and school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260331
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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development During Childhood : Evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083817
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Performance-Related Funding of Universities : Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118471
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government : Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - 2021
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317305
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Weißhaar, Natalia - 2017
's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954998
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The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income : Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age
Davies, Neil M. - 2019
We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870288
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Jolliffe, Dean - 2010
Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this empirical evidence, the view that the poor are less healthy in terms of excess accumulation of fat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134989