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This paper examines the relationship between a young adults' debt burden and the decision to co-reside with a parent. Using a quarterly panel of young adults' credit histories, and controlling for age, country, and quarter fixed effects, and local demographic characteristics, unemployment rates,...
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In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health development among young women. Using administrative in- and outpatient records from Sweden, we apply a novel grouped fixed-effects estimator proposed by Bonhomme and Manresa (2015)...
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In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health development among young women. Using administrative in- and outpatient records from Sweden, we apply a novel grouped fixed-effects estimator proposed by Bonhomme and Manresa (2015)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517556
literacy of youth in India …
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Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a … youth, but to monitor the progress a better understanding on what constitutes youth empowerment is needed. However, in … important for youth and how they can be operationalized with indicators for measurement. We propose four domains of youth …
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Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation methods using monetary rewards, with several recent studies failing to find present bias for money. In this paper, we compare estimates of...
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In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by running incentivized experiments in Hungarian...
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Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation methods using monetary rewards, with several recent studies failing to find present bias for money. In this paper, we compare estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242348
The study discusses the aspirations and preferences of youth in rural sub-Saharan Africa using a large-scale SMS … when youth in southwestern Ethiopia. The cross-country youth study shows that most rural youth in Africa prefer working in … nonfarm economic sectors. It also finds that above half of the rural youth are undecided about their migration aspirations …
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We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences - particularly prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field...
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