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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9053
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Brian
Duncan
Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl
Studies have estimated the relationship between psychological stress and birth weight by exploiting natural disasters and terrorist attacks, both of which could affect fetal health through other ...
(published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978)
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I12, J13
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9052
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Susan
L.
Averett
Erin
K.
Fletcher
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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the ...
(published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.)
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I12, J13
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9051
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Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Lucia
A.
Reisch
Karin
Bammann
Gabriele
Eiben
Yiannis
Kourides
Eva
Kovács
Fabio
Lauria
Kenn
Konstabel
Alba
M.
Santaliestra-Pasias
Krishna
Vyncke
Iris
Pigeot
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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152)
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I12, J13, J22
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9050
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Giovanni
S. F.
Bruno
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Orietta
Dessy
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Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
In this paper we explore recent ISFOL-PLUS 2006-2008-2010 data available for Italy about height and weight of young workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity ...
(published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8)
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J28, J81, I14
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9049
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Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the ...
(published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56)
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C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
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9048
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Esther
Hauk
Javier
Ortega
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Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach
We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166)
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D02, I2, N00, O14
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9047
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Anders
Stenberg
Olle
Westerlund
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Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86)
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H30, H52, I20, J24, O30
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9046
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Joniada
Milla
Thanasis
Stengos
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Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery
It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children in many, if not most, populations. This relationship may form an ...
(published as 'Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 593-616)
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I0
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9045
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marianne
Simonsen
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Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care
This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use ...
(published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 217-229 )
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J13
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9044
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Enric
Meix-Llop
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Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment
The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.)
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H41, I20, K36
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