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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826240
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026864
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837324
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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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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
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Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to Their Sense of Control?
Baron, Juan D. - 2011
This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133598
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Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
transitions to inactivity and public assistance, while youth reports of financial stresses are associated with earlier nest … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134078
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Decline in Social Mobility : Unfulfilled Aspirations Among Egypt's Educated Youth
Binzel, Christine - 2011
suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social mobility among the increasingly well-educated youth. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117846
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Re-Examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood
Bjerk, David - 2011
This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120130
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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120843