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This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
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How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....
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individuals' perception of climate extremes based on results from individuals' surveys. In this paper is considered the study of … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals …' perception survey, a sample of 300 individuals were interviewed by telephone: 150 extracted from the North of Italy and 150 from …
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data on bill and quality perception in Brazil to analyze this problem and its drivers. Once we control for the selection …
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, companies and scholars have paid little attention to the end users of medical devices: patients. We focus on the innovative … the German, UK, and U.S. markets for medical smartphone apps (Apple App Store) and conduct 16 semi-structured interviews …. Our findings show that users develop around 46% of all medical smartphone applications (apps). We analyzed 510,229 user …
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Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on … identify the causal effect of childhood disability we use an event study approach, where we control for a rich set of pre … with a disability has strong negative impact on mothers’ earnings. The effect is persistent and the wage penalty appears to …
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