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Where to snuff the puff? Relative effectiveness of U.S. smoking control policies
Goel, Rajeev K. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 44 (2013) C, pp. 97-102
This research examines the relative effectiveness of various smoking control initiatives in lowering U.S. smoking prevalence. The main contribution lies in considering alternate state-level restrictions on retailers as well as smokers. Greater restrictions on smokers lower smoking prevalence,...
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Race, Sex, and the Neglected Risks for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stillwaggon, Eileen - In: Feminist Economics 14 (2008) 4, pp. 67-86
Global AIDS policy has failed to stop the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa because prevention programs are limited by an unscientific theory of disease causation, which assumes that differences in HIV prevalence among populations are adequately explained by variation in rates of unsafe sexual...
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Single-sex schools, student achievement, and course selection : evidence from rule-based student assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, Clement - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 1/2, pp. 173-187
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Boy-girl differences in parental time investments : evidence from three countries
Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - 2013
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Single-sex schools, student achievement, and course selection : evidence from rule-based student assignment in Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, Clement - 2011
typical single-sex student differs greatly from that of the average student. Girls at single-sex-schools take fewer sciences …
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Using quantile distance functions to assess inter- and intrasex variability in PISA achievement scores
Lehre, Anne-Catherine; Laake, Petter; Sexton, Joseph Andrew - In: Educational policy evaluation through international …, (pp. 177-190). 2014
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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments : Evidence from Three Countries
Baker, Michael - 2013
We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U ….S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014978
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016191
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Son preference and child under nutrition in the Arab Countries : is there a gender bias against girls?
Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy; Rashada, Ahmed Shoukry; Mansour, … - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 11 (2019) 2, pp. 199-219
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