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Planned Treatment and Outcomes in Residential Youth Care: Evidence from Sweden
Lindqvist, Erik - 2010
A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. In this paper, I show that planned treatment is strongly positively associated with treatment outcomes. In the short term, teenagers with planned treatment are less likely to experience a...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269515
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Are children decision-makers within the household?
Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - 2008
Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273855
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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in infants in the United Kingdom /
Bentley, Anthony; Filipovic, Ivana; Gooch, Katherine; … - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 18, pp. 1-12
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory infection that is highly prevalent in infants. Severe cases of RSV infection require hospitalisation; this is most likely to occur in infant populations at high risk. The study assesses the cost-effectiveness of...
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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
problems and obesity of male children at ages 12 and 13. It also lowers depression and obesity among adolescents, and reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282137
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Fathers and youth's delinquent behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286881
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Youth crime and education expansion
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2012
We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the whole education distribution and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282480
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Toward a Strategic Urban Development and Housing Policy for the Philippines
Carino, Benjamin V.; Corpuz, Arturo G. - 2009
Philippine cities provide the highest levels of service and living standards in the country. Much of what happens to the country in terms of production and employment, income and consumption, and access to basic services and amenities will continue to be determined by the performance of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421149
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Residents' Benefits Evaluation of Urban Development Plans - A Willingnes-To-Accept Model for a Multi-functional Land Use Project in Amsterdam
Rodenburg, Caroline A.; Nijkamp, Peter; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2009
Urban re-development projects may generate various positive as well as negative spatial externalities to the existing population in a given area. This study aims to assess the order of magnitude of the expected net benefits for incumbent residents from a large scale project in the Southern part...
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