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In this paper we study how the access price affects the choice of the tariff regime taken by the network operators. We show that for high values of the access price, that is taken as a parameter by the firms, networks decide to charge only the callers. Otherwise, for low values of the access...
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In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … depends on their employment status and household characteristics. Using a simultaneous sequential approach, we consider links …
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In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The contribution of this paper is to study the connection...
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This paper assesses the impact of social factors on the development of allergic diseases in early childhood. Epidemiological research has shown increasing allergy rates with improvements in social economic status (SES). However, we argue that the pattern of social influences on allergies is too...
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El presente documento busca de manera indicativa explicitar algunos elementos conceptuales y prácticos para construir el problema acerca del tema, pues la diversidad de ángulos desde donde se lo aborda da la impresión de que el problema mismo no está conceptualizado de manera homogénea. En...
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Examination Survey (K-NHANES), this research examines the relationship between having children at home and depression among men … differential in depression. Having children at home improves psychological well-being for men only in 23 European countries and … results also show that household income is negatively associated with levels of depression in South Korea. …
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In experimental studies, children exposed to television food ads chose less healthy snacks and consumed more food … overall, as compared with children exposed only to ads for toys. These findings, however, do not indicate that TV viewing … total calories and the quality of food consumed during a day for children 6 to 18 years old. This research is the first to …
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The debate over universal health insurance (HI) in the U.S., as well as the proper role of the government in the HI market, has been quite heated. Fueling this debate is the uncertainty pertaining to the benefits of HI in general, and the relative benefits of private versus public HI in...
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Low and medium SES children's knowledge of the Australian Government's recommendations for minimum daily intakes of … fruit and vegetables and their reported actual intakes were investigated. In total, 524 children and 123 parents from four … Australian schools responded to questionnaires on the topic of children's fruit and vegetable preferences and intakes. Around …
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In this paper, we investigate the extent of the effects of children and child-related time out of the labor market on … market, which affects only women. We do not find any direct negative impact of children on women's current hourly wage at the …
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