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Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development
Fletcher, Jason M.; Kim, Jinho - 2018
This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of maltreatment by adults, both for the adolescent and his/her classmates. While all types of...
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The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach
Jones, Todd R.; Kreisman, Daniel; Rubenstein, Ross; … - 2020
For years Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program provided full tuition scholarships to high achieving students. State …
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Fading hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
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State merit-based financial aid programs and college attainment
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2012
the University System of Georgia to look more in depth at the effects of the HOPE Scholarship on degree completion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287636
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State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the University System of Georgia to look more in depth at the effects of the HOPE Scholarship on degree completion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252281
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Fading Hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646298
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Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship
Hübler, Olaf - 2017
Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653348
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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207739
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COVID-19, Race, and Redlining
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...
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American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19: Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses …' vulnerability. Latent class analysis was used to explore the vulnerability types, and weighted linear regressions examined the … relationship between vulnerability, aging attitudes and emotional responses. Results showed that the proportion for individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177733