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Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours : The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis

Gaggero, Alessio; Gil, Joan; Jiménez-Rubio, Dolores; … - 2021

We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behav … information in affecting changes in key lifestyle behaviours …

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Beauty, Underage Drinking, and Adolescent Risky Behaviours

Green, Colin; Wilson, Luke B.; Zhang, Anwen - 2022

Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...

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The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure : Longitudinal Evidence for China

Lu, Haiyang - 2019

Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...

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More Schooling, Less Youth Crime? Learning from an Earthquake in Japan

Aoki, Yu - 2014

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … policy interventions that occurred after the Kobe earthquake that hit Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment inducing …

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The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007 : Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?

Arai, Yoichi - 2015

Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this … question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's long-term structural changes, induced primarily … examine the role of educational upgrading on the labor-market outcomes of youth between the ages of 25 and 29, using six waves …

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Lifestyle and Mental Health Disruptions During Covid-19

Giuntella, Osea - 2020

COVID-19 has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Using a longitudinal dataset linking biometric and survey data from several cohorts of young adults before and during the pandemic (N=685), we document large disruptions to physical activity, sleep, time use, and mental health. At the onset...

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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity

Hong, Kai - 2020

We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect while controlling for latent skills and unobserved heterogeneity. We decompose the effect with respect to a large set of potential mechanisms, including health behaviors,...

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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills During Adolescence : Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...

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The Mental Cost of Job Loss : Assessing the Impact on Young Adults in Vietnam

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

We exploit the extensive job loss associated with the devastating fourth wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam to examine the impact of unemployment on young people's experiences of anxiety and depression. Using data from a longitudinal study with individual and survey-wave fixed effects, we show that job...

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Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas

Winters, John V. - 2022

This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) and a two-way fixed effects regression model. I examine effects for teens and adults with less than an associate's degree for the entire U.S. and by metropolitan...

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