Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country [0.03%]
财政外部性与早期人生资本投资不足：发展中国家的最优政策工具
Nicholas Lawson,Dean Spears
Nicholas Lawson
We study policy instruments to correct inefficiently low investment in maternal nutrition in India, where one-fifth of all births occur. We focus on fiscal externalities: healthier babies become more productive adults, who pay more tax. How...
The physical well-being of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric evidence from British Columbia's jails, 1864-1913 [0.03%]
太平洋西北地区土著社区的身心健康：来自1864至1913年不列颠哥伦比亚省监狱的人体测量证据
Kris Inwood,Ian Keay
Kris Inwood
This paper documents the height of Indigenous men from the Pacific Northwest who were incarcerated in British Columbia's jails during a period of colonization and increasing market access. The average height of adults from a given community...
Oded Stark
Oded Stark
The 1949 study The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Volume II, by Stouffer et al. presents detailed accounts of the attitudes of American fighter pilots toward the stress experienced by them and of the policies and practices of t...
Health benefits of air pollution reduction: Evidence from economic slowdown in India [0.03%]
印度经济放缓的空气污染减少带来的健康效益证据
Olexiy Kyrychenko
Olexiy Kyrychenko
This paper evaluates health benefits associated with the impact of air pollution reduction on infant mortality in India. Leveraging plausibly exogenous geographic variation in air pollution due to the post-2010 economic slowdown-a period la...
High temperatures and traffic accident crimes: Evidence from more than 470,000 offenses in China [0.03%]
高温与交通事故犯罪：基于中国47万起案件的证据
Meng Wang,Shiying Zhang
Meng Wang
How does climate change affect road safety? This study examines the impacts of high temperatures on the crime of causing traffic casualties based on comprehensive data covering more than 470,000 offenses from verdicts published by Chinese c...
Social inequalities in adult mortality across Europe (18th-21st centuries): A critical analysis of theories and evidence [0.03%]
欧洲（18至21世纪）成人死亡率的社会不平等：理论与证据的批判性分析
Víctor Antonio Luque de Haro
Víctor Antonio Luque de Haro
This study examines the historical evolution of socioeconomic disparities in adult mortality, with a focus on European societies. Despite the widespread improvements in population health, social inequalities in mortality are a pervasive phe...
The fattening speed: Understanding the impact of internet speed on obesity, and the mediating role of sedentary behaviour [0.03%]
速胖：互联网速度对肥胖的影响及久坐行为的中介作用理解
Michelle I-Hsuan Lin,Sefa Awaworyi Churchill,Klaus Ackermann
Michelle I-Hsuan Lin
We examine the impact of access to high-speed internet on obesity. Using 14 waves of longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and a newly constructed dataset on the rollout and adoption ra...
What is the relationship between risk attitudes and ambient temperature? Evidence from a large population-based cohort study [0.03%]
风险态度和环境温度的关系：基于大型人群队列研究的证据
Adriana N König,Michael Laxy,Annette Peters et al.
Adriana N König et al.
Rising temperatures affect human behavior and risk-taking in several domains. However, it is not yet well understood just how ambient temperature shapes risk attitudes. Using data from the large population-based KORA-Fit study (Cooperative ...
The role of gene-environment interaction in the formation of risk attitudes [0.03%]
基因与环境的相互作用在风险态度形成中的作用
Jaroslav Groero
Jaroslav Groero
Understanding the formation of risk preferences is crucial for elucidating the roots of economic, social, and health inequalities. However, this area remains inadequately explored. This study employs a risk preference measure directly linke...
Ha Trong Nguyen,Stephen R Zubrick,Francis Mitrou
Ha Trong Nguyen
This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily daylight variation. Utilising a dataset of over 50,000 time-use diaries from two Australian cohorts spanning 16 years and...