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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11454 Mette Trier Damgaard
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Nudging in Education
Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 313-342)
D03, D04, I20
11453 Philipp Lergetporer
Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those ...
(published in: Economica, 2021, 88(351), 624-670)
D83, I24, J24, H75
11452 Matias Berthelon
Diana Kruger
Rafael Sánchez
Maternal Stress during Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
There is a consensus in the literature on the relevance of the first 1,000 days since conception in the development of a child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. However, little is known of the ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101047)
I10, I19, J13
11451 Rosemary Elkins
Stefanie Schurer
Exploring the Role of Fathers in Non-Cognitive Skill Development over the Lifecourse
Internal locus of control (LOC) is a highly beneficial non-cognitive skill, yet its long-term formation process remains poorly understood. Using British cohort data, we examine the role that fathers ...
(published as 'Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 957–1004)
I12, J24
11450 Stefanie Schurer
Kristian Trajkovski
Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Lifetime Economic Outcomes
Over the past two decades, researchers have shown a growing interest in the role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) – children's confrontation with maltreatment and household dysfunction ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101743)
I32, J12
11449 Sonja C. de New
Stefanie Schurer
Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application
We develop and test an economic model of the cognitive and non-cognitive foundations of survey item-response behavior. We show that a summary measure of response behaviour - the survey item-response ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2023, 41 (1), 197-212 )
J24, C18, C83, I20, J30
11447 Gerard J. van den Berg
Bettina M. Siflinger
The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age
This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral disorders and mental and physical health at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of merged population register data ...
(published as 'The effects of a daycare reform on health in childhood - Evidence from Sweden ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102577)
I12, J13, J14, C23, C25, C83
11446 María Laura Alzúa
Habiba Djebbari
Amy J. Pickering
A Community Based Program Promotes Sanitation
Basic sanitation facilities are still lacking in large parts of the developing world, engendering serious environmental health risks. Interventions commonly deliver in-kind or cash subsidies to ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 62 (3), 357–390)
Q53, Q58, D78
11445 Chloe N. East
Andrew I. Friedson
An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants
In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one of the largest safety net programs in the U.S. today, the universal nature of the ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 289–323)
H51, H53, H75, I11, I18, Q18
11444 Charles Courtemanche
Andrew I. Friedson
Daniel I. Rees
Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least ...
(published as 'Association of Ambulance Use in New York City With the Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ' in: JAMA Network Open, 2019, 2 (6), e196419. )
I11, I13, I18
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