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virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a … city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai Children's Health, Education and Lifestyle Evaluation, Preschool … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and …
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and conscientiousness at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such...
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We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
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-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from the 2000 U.S. Census, and USGS data on lead in topsoil covering a …
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We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the … likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails …
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that participate in the Supplemental Nutriation Assistance Program (SNAP), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), and the … National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to better understand behavioral differences across participants and non …
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Nonmedical exemptions from school-entry vaccine mandates are receiving increased policy and public health scrutiny … academic achievement in middle school. We leverage 2003 legislation that granted personal belief exemptions (PBE) in Texas and … middle school. Estimated effects on mathematics and English Language Arts test scores were largest for black students …
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Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk … efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they suffer from an …
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administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …
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This paper studies the effect of the end of school summer breaks on SARS-CoV-2 cases in Germany. We exploit variation … specifications, sub-group analyses and robustness checks, we do not find any evidence of a positive effect of school re-openings on …,000 inhabitants or 27 percent of a standard deviation. Our results are not explained by changes in mobility patterns around school re …
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