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This case study documents how India, the world's second most populous country, pulled the reins on a global epidemic to … stop it in its tracks from growing into a generalized epidemic. Central to the case study is the story of a government body …, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) that, with the support of international development organizations like the …
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In many low- and middle-income countries blood donations per capita are substantially lower than in advanced economies. In these countries blood supply is mostly collected through donations by relatives and friends of individuals needing transfusions or to replace blood used in emergencies. The...
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Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …
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A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a … or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we find an increase in donations until the age of 13-14, but not beyond …
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competitiveness of children in matrilineal and patriarchal societies. We find that while there is no difference at any age in the …
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children of parents with low education are more spiteful, more selfish and less altruistic. This link is robust to controlling … development of preferences, as we find children to become less spiteful and more altruistic with increasing age. Our findings … invested in instilling other-regarding preferences into children, making them less likely to acquire cooperative types of …
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- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …
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Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., with now almost a third of children ages 2-19 deemed …,500 children, we report several key insights. First, we find that individual incentives can have large influences: in the control …, only 17% of children prefer the healthy snack, whereas the introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the …
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In this paper we examine the effects that variations in the quality of the environment at birth have on children …’s other-regarding preferences, as measured through four binary-choice dictator games run with school-age children in rural … Sierra Leone. We examine the effect of exogenous variations in rainfall level by location and year on children’s social …
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We examine the correlation between the generosity of clinicians – as measured in a laboratory experiment – and the quality of care in their normal practices under three different intrinsic incentive schemes. Specifically, we observe clinicians in their normal work environment, when a peer...
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