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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269867
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …
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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282461
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Investing in our young people
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326563
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Excluded Generation: The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline - 2017
Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today …. Whether youth successfully make transitions to formal jobs, embark on such transitions and fail, or pursue a traditional route …
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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277328
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The role of early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Deeg, Dorly J.H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such as job loss or the reduction of pension benefits. It is conceivable that the impact of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277333
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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The impact of early life economic conditions on cause-specific mortality during adulthood
Yeung, Gary Y. C.; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, … - 2012
The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during adulthood. The analyses are performed on a unique historical sample of 14,520 Dutch individuals born in 1880-1918, who are followed throughout life. The economic conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282174