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Looks and Gaming : Who and Why?
Chung, Andy - 2024
We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are...
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition
Grossman, Michael - 2012
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program …
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A Long and a Short Leg Make For a Wobbly Equilibrium
Garleanu, Nicolae; Panageas, Stauros; Zheng, Geoffery X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide evidence that the online discussion on the WSB subreddit had a substantial negative impact on the profitability of shorting strategies across a number of stocks -- even those that were neither heavily discussed on the subreddit, nor experienced an unusual increase in retail buying...
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Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
Aguiar, Mark - 2017
Younger men, ages 21 to 30, exhibited a larger decline in work hours over the last fifteen years than older men or women. Since 2004, time-use data show that younger men distinctly shifted their leisure to video gaming and other recreational computer activities. We propose a framework to answer...
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Beliefs that Entertain
Gandhi, Ashvin; Giuliano, Paola; Guan, Eric; Keefer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Economic research on entertainment is scant despite its large share of time use. We test economic theories of belief-based utility in the context of video-game engagement. Using data on 2.8 million matches from League of Legends, we find evidence supporting reference-dependent preferences, loss...
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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America
Caruso, Martín - 2019
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...
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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Basurto, Pia M. - 2017
Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...
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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru
Karlan, Dean - 2013
For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459016
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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2013
Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and show that ordeal mechanisms may actually have theoretically...
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