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Taking Chances : The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756171
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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917096
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers
Averett, Susan L. - 2016
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983035
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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 … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant …
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Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo - 2011
also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127319
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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022
Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083794
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324836
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131926
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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