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Does education strengthen the life skills of adolescents? : secondary and higher education are windows of opportunity for boosting students’ life skills
Schurer, Stefanie - 2017
Life skills, sometimes referred to as noncognitive skills or personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness or locus of control-the belief to influence events and their outcomes), affect labor market productivity. Policy makers and academics are thus exploring whether such skills should be taught at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662142
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"Eat, my child" - overweight and obesity among children in developing countries
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households in developing countries, most of the attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422908
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The impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health in rural households of north-western Bangladesh : a quasi-experimental analysis
Hasan, Mohammad Monirul; Gerber, Nikolaus - 2016
We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized … group of households to identify gains in water-sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes. We found that the BMDA piped water … health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …
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Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition : Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978171
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Behavior change for early childhood nutrition : effectiveness of health worker training depends on maternal information in a randomized control trial
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581671
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Scarred for life? : early-life experience of the post-reunification economic crisis in East Germany and physical and mental health outcomes in early adulthood
Bister, Lara; Spijker, Jeroen Johannes Anthonius; … - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 701-740
Existing research suggests adverse short-term health effects of economic crises during early life, yet, the long …-term health effects for children and adolescents exposed to economic crises are still understudied. We investigated the early …-adult health implications of experiencing the post-reunification economic crisis in East Germany in the early 1990s during infancy …
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Cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and school-to-work transitions in rural China
Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613141
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962277
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mother Tongue-Based Education on Reading Skills and Early Labour Market Outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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Health effects on children's willingness to compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
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