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terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
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We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who … the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders. Within one month after receiving a reminder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283959
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291401
We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who … the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders. Within one month after receiving a reminder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128026
We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child abuse and neglect in Germany between 2002 and 2014. For identification, we exploit a governmental reform introducing mandatory early child care. The implementation at the county level generated large temporal and spatial...
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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271974
We analyze the impact of tourist flows on local labor markets, following a novel identification strategy that uses temporary shocks in alternative international destinations to instrument for tourism flows across Spanish regions. We find that a one standard deviation increase in tourist inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210956
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are …. Based on these insights, we estimate a simple structural model where heterogeneous households experiencing terrorism form …
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We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
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