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behavior using a sample of students in a major Irish University. It finds evidence of strong associations between amounts of … alcohol students consume and drinking of their fathers and older siblings. In contrast, it finds little evidence of impacts of … other non-drinking aspects of family background on students’ drinking. Parental and older sibling drinking appears to affect …
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This paper examines students’ perceptions of excessive drinking using statistical vignettes based on standard alcohol … heterogeneity in students’ perceptions of alcohol excess both in terms of their own self-rated excessiveness and in terms of their …
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The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health...
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We provide novel evidence on the existence and the extent of intergenerational transmission of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from the Almalaurea data. Parental influence on two STEM...
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We provide novel evidence on the existence and the extent of intergenerational transmission of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from the Almalaurea data. Parental influence on two STEM...
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We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions – diagnosed by government physicians – can account for...
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