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age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect … on health weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges in early adolescence. Further analysis suggests both …
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and temporal variation in housing price appreciation linked to individual-level health data in China from 2000 to 2011. We … diseases. This negative health impact is more pronounced among individuals from low-income families, households that purchased … marriage market competition exacerbates these negative health effects, particularly for males and parents with young adult sons …
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.8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension … sizes and compelling old parents in bad health to continue working. …
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While the burden of non-communicable diseases is rising in low- and middle-income countries, the uptake of screening for these diseases remains low. We conducted a community-based RCT in Indonesia to assess whether personalized and targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing...
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We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German university applicants. Interestingly, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that...
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Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...
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This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on average, are less likely than men to overestimate their...
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We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
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This paper examines how culture determines within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture to those in a gendertraditional culture. The long-run penalty on the...
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. Theoretically, they are also connected with other important behavior, such as health-related or eco-friendly behavior, but these … focus on general risk taking, the environmental and the health domain, particularly on addictive behavior. Using a novel … health-related behavior: An index capturing the obsessive use of smartphones is predicted significantly by prudence, but not …
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