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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Otterbeck, Jonas - 2007
Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study has been to clarify and examine young people's...
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Youth risk-taking behavior in Brazil: drug use and teenage pregnancies
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Verner, Dorte - 2007
aim of this paper is to study interactions among different types of risk-taking behavior by youth, namely drug use and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268309
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268594
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262430
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An Analysis of the Processes of Labour Market Exclusion and (Re-) Inclusion
Rosholm, Michael - 2001
In this paper we analyze the processes of labour market exclusion and (re-) inclusion, using a Danish register-based data set covering the period 1981-1990. The analysis is performed by estimation of reduced form transition models, the parameters of which are interpreted within the framework of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262538
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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262678
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Does child abuse cause crime?
Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267428