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Computer Gaming and Test Scores : Cross-Country Gender Differences Among Teenagers
Algan, Yann - 2016
Using the PISA surveys (2000-2012), this paper explores the relationship between math test scores and everyday computer gaming by gender and for high income and middle income countries. We use two identification strategies in the spirit of an ideal experiment that would reduce computer gaming...
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Youth Body Composition
Grossman, Michael - 2013
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2012
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
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Fostering the Emancipation of Young People : Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2012
. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is conditional on young adults renting accommodation, and it amounts to almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104666
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Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours : An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy Among Adolescents
Duarte, Rosa - 2007
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
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Time to Work or Time to Play : The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2010
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities. Time-diary data are more detailed and accurate than...
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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes : The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
Cawley, John - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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Countering Public Opposition to Immigration : The Impact of Information Campaigns
Facchini, Giovanni - 2017
Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can information campaigns decrease public opposition to immigration? This paper reports results from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966825
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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...
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