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postsecondary education could rationalize this result, we argue this might also suggest that individuals lack information at the …
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Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
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foods than others. We first confirm that households with lower income and education purchase less healthful foods. We then … nutritional quality of purchases made by households with low levels of income and education respond very little when new stores …
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We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...
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stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based …
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companies and HMOs. In this paper, we study the role of current prescription drug use and health risks, related expectations …' choices respond to the incentives provided by their own health status and the market environment as predicted by the …
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Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students …
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This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We … SGL program increased the probability of enrollment and reduced the probability of dropping out from tertiary education … program. We attribute this negative result to the design of the SGL program, which has incentivized higher education …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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In this paper we provide some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administrative data on the university entrance exam in Turkey we estimate cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt...
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