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Ideology
Bénabou, Roland - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
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Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
Askitas, Nikos - 2017
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept … of opinion copulas, argue that it is well supported by findings in Social Psychology and use it to show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653481
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? : Evidence from England
Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2004
evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further research efforts. What determines whether results are discussed in a neutral or a judgmental way? How precise and convincing must results be so that authors call for significant...
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Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307453
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003
behaviors become healthier when the economy weakens, possibly by increasing the non-market time available for lifestyle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262072
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China
Zhang, Yuting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024
city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai Children's Health, Education and Lifestyle Evaluation, Preschool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567537
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513188
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Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals
Savelyev, Peter A.; Tan, Kegon T.K. - 2017
We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across the lifecycle. By both focusing on a high IQ sample and controlling for IQ in regression models,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816485
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210814