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La descrizione delle risorse bibliografiche in linked data
No full textThe article is an appendix of the volume Come lavorare con Wikidata in biblioteca = How to work with Wikidata in the library, written by Alessandra Boccone and Tania Maio, published by Editrice Bibliografica in April 2021. In this article, after a brief introduction to Wikidata and to the construction of an element, the tables of the WikiProject Books and Periodicals are reported. They have been translated, revised and expanded by the author, for the benefit of librarians who wish to approach the creation of items of bibliographic interest, such as authors, monographs, journals, articles in linked open data. It ends with a brief reflection on the possibilities offered by Wikidata in the field of authority control
Essays on Health and Human Capital Accumulation
No full textIn this dissertation, I study how public and private programs affect health and human capital accumulation over the lifecycle. In ``Who Benefits Most From a Same-Race Mentor? Evidence From a Nationwide Youth Mentoring Program,'' my co-authors, Zachary Szlendak and Corey Woodruff, and I identify the impacts of assigning a mentor of the same race/ethnicity on youths' social, emotional and academic growth which are key inputs for their non-cognitive development. We find that Black and Hispanic youth assigned a same-race/ethnicity mentor had slightly faster growth in self-perceived school ability and risk attitudes relative to cross-race matches. Cross-race matched Hispanic youth had improvements in course grades and Black youth were more likely to report having a ``special adult'' in their life. We do not find improvements in grades or expectations for future educational attainment.In ``Early Childhood Health and Family Planning: Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects on Human Capital,'' Tania Barham, Gisella Kagy, Jena Hamadani and I examine the long-term and intergenerational effects of an early child health and family planning program in Bangladesh on the human capital of adults who were eligible as children and of their children. Improving the health and nutrition of young children can improve both immediate well-being and also reduce poverty in the long-run through improved human capital. There may also be intergenerational transfers of endowments and investments from improved health and nutrition that augment the human capital of the next generation. We find sustained impacts on height and education into adulthood for the adult generation, and improved height and cognition for daughters in the next generation.In ``Mental Health Parity and Depression,'' I estimate the impacts of mental healthcare on individual depression. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses and, although treatable, access to care is limited. I use the passage of state mental health parity laws which mandated higher levels of coverage to identify the effect of increased access to mental health services. I find that privately insured individuals living in states with parity mandates showed no improvements in depression compared to their counterparts in non-parity states
Essays on Health and Human Capital Accumulation
No full textIn this dissertation, I study how public and private programs affect health and human capital accumulation over the lifecycle. In ``Who Benefits Most From a Same-Race Mentor? Evidence From a Nationwide Youth Mentoring Program,'' my co-authors, Zachary Szlendak and Corey Woodruff, and I identify the impacts of assigning a mentor of the same race/ethnicity on youths' social, emotional and academic growth which are key inputs for their non-cognitive development. We find that Black and Hispanic youth assigned a same-race/ethnicity mentor had slightly faster growth in self-perceived school ability and risk attitudes relative to cross-race matches. Cross-race matched Hispanic youth had improvements in course grades and Black youth were more likely to report having a ``special adult'' in their life. We do not find improvements in grades or expectations for future educational attainment.In ``Early Childhood Health and Family Planning: Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects on Human Capital,'' Tania Barham, Gisella Kagy, Jena Hamadani and I examine the long-term and intergenerational effects of an early child health and family planning program in Bangladesh on the human capital of adults who were eligible as children and of their children. Improving the health and nutrition of young children can improve both immediate well-being and also reduce poverty in the long-run through improved human capital. There may also be intergenerational transfers of endowments and investments from improved health and nutrition that augment the human capital of the next generation. We find sustained impacts on height and education into adulthood for the adult generation, and improved height and cognition for daughters in the next generation.In ``Mental Health Parity and Depression,'' I estimate the impacts of mental healthcare on individual depression. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses and, although treatable, access to care is limited. I use the passage of state mental health parity laws which mandated higher levels of coverage to identify the effect of increased access to mental health services. I find that privately insured individuals living in states with parity mandates showed no improvements in depression compared to their counterparts in non-parity states
. 1096 Año 22 (2023) septiembre. El Tlacuache
No full textLas festividades dan cuenta de una diversidad de formas de relaciones sociales y de vinculación social con el territorio. Se ha destacado el papel que han tenido para generar momentos de convivencia y cooperación colectiva. Las personas brindan a la comunidad trabajo, dinero, productos y/o aportan capital social (es decir, facilitar algún trámite o el uso de algún espacio en la localidad).- Territorialidad y festividad. Celebración a Santo Domingo de Guzmán en Oaxtepec por Tania Alejandra Ramírez Rocha y Patricia Ramírez Ramírez.Jaripeo. Fotografía: Patricia Ramírez Ramírez, Oaxtepec, Morelos, 2023
Three Essays on Migration and Public Policy
No full textMy first chapter investigates the effect of high-skilled immigration on the wages of US-born college graduates. Descriptive evidence suggests that workers with different college majors compete in separate labor markets. I adapt a standard labor market model, allowing for the imperfect substitutability of workers with different college majors. Because immigrants are more likely than natives to study STEM fields, the model predicts that the relative wages of native STEM majors should fall as skilled immigration increases. Using an IV strategy that leverages large changes in the cap of H-1B visas and controls for major- and age-specific unobservable characteristics, I find that workers most exposed to increased competition from immigration have lower wages than you would expect. A 10 percentage point increase in a skill group’s immigrant-native ratio decreases their relative wages by 1.2 percent. Overall, I estimate that the STEM wage premium decreased 4–12 percentage points because of immigration from 1990–2010.In my second chapter, I extend the welfare magnets literature by using the 2014 expansion of Medicaid to test for welfare migration. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandated the expansion of Medicaid. However, a Supreme Court decision overturned this provision and allowed states to opt-out. As a result, childless adults with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level are eligible for Medicaid in states that have expanded coverage and are not eligible at any income level in the majority of states that opted to not expand. Using a difference-in-differences strategy which compares the log estimated low-income population of expansion and non-expansion states, before and after Medicaid expansion, I find that the low-income population increased by 1% in expansion states after 2012 relative to what one would expect given pre-existing trends and post-decision population changes in non-expansion states. This result is robust to the use of state-level synthetic control. I also find that Medicaid take-up in expansion states increased more along the border of the state relative to the interior, which is driven by portions of the state that neighbor non-expansion states.My final chapter, written with Tania Barham and Randall Kuhn, estimates the long-term impact of a maternal and child health and family planning program on labor market and migration outcomes. Early childhood health and nutrition programs are believed to improve adult living standards in the long run in part through the effect of improved human capital on labor market opportunities. We take advantage of a quasi-randomly placed Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning program in a rural Bangladesh, Matlab, and the roll out of the program between 1977–1988 to examine the program effects on labor market outcomes and migrations 35 years after the program start. We focus on two cohorts: 30–34 year olds, born when family planning interventions were introduced in the treatment area; and 24–29 year olds, born when both family planning and child health interventions were available in the treatment area. Previous research shows the program improved human capital for the 24–29 year olds, but not the 30–34 year olds. For men, we find that the 24–29 age group is more likely have professional jobs, be entrepreneurial, and use more academic skills and less physical strength in their jobs. Despite having “better” jobs, however, these young men earned the same as those in the comparison group. This is surprising, but perhaps more surprisingly, this appears to be because they are more likely to be currently living and working at home in Matlab rather than migrating for work to urban areas of Bangladesh. Women in the 24–29 age group also benefited. They are more likely to work in paid agriculture activities such as raising ducks and hens and have more personal savings. Those in the 30–34 age groups did not fare as well, and in fact the men migrat
Three Essays on Migration and Public Policy
No full textMy first chapter investigates the effect of high-skilled immigration on the wages of US-born college graduates. Descriptive evidence suggests that workers with different college majors compete in separate labor markets. I adapt a standard labor market model, allowing for the imperfect substitutability of workers with different college majors. Because immigrants are more likely than natives to study STEM fields, the model predicts that the relative wages of native STEM majors should fall as skilled immigration increases. Using an IV strategy that leverages large changes in the cap of H-1B visas and controls for major- and age-specific unobservable characteristics, I find that workers most exposed to increased competition from immigration have lower wages than you would expect. A 10 percentage point increase in a skill group’s immigrant-native ratio decreases their relative wages by 1.2 percent. Overall, I estimate that the STEM wage premium decreased 4–12 percentage points because of immigration from 1990–2010.In my second chapter, I extend the welfare magnets literature by using the 2014 expansion of Medicaid to test for welfare migration. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandated the expansion of Medicaid. However, a Supreme Court decision overturned this provision and allowed states to opt-out. As a result, childless adults with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level are eligible for Medicaid in states that have expanded coverage and are not eligible at any income level in the majority of states that opted to not expand. Using a difference-in-differences strategy which compares the log estimated low-income population of expansion and non-expansion states, before and after Medicaid expansion, I find that the low-income population increased by 1% in expansion states after 2012 relative to what one would expect given pre-existing trends and post-decision population changes in non-expansion states. This result is robust to the use of state-level synthetic control. I also find that Medicaid take-up in expansion states increased more along the border of the state relative to the interior, which is driven by portions of the state that neighbor non-expansion states.My final chapter, written with Tania Barham and Randall Kuhn, estimates the long-term impact of a maternal and child health and family planning program on labor market and migration outcomes. Early childhood health and nutrition programs are believed to improve adult living standards in the long run in part through the effect of improved human capital on labor market opportunities. We take advantage of a quasi-randomly placed Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning program in a rural Bangladesh, Matlab, and the roll out of the program between 1977–1988 to examine the program effects on labor market outcomes and migrations 35 years after the program start. We focus on two cohorts: 30–34 year olds, born when family planning interventions were introduced in the treatment area; and 24–29 year olds, born when both family planning and child health interventions were available in the treatment area. Previous research shows the program improved human capital for the 24–29 year olds, but not the 30–34 year olds. For men, we find that the 24–29 age group is more likely have professional jobs, be entrepreneurial, and use more academic skills and less physical strength in their jobs. Despite having “better” jobs, however, these young men earned the same as those in the comparison group. This is surprising, but perhaps more surprisingly, this appears to be because they are more likely to be currently living and working at home in Matlab rather than migrating for work to urban areas of Bangladesh. Women in the 24–29 age group also benefited. They are more likely to work in paid agriculture activities such as raising ducks and hens and have more personal savings. Those in the 30–34 age groups did not fare as well, and in fact the men migrat
El Tlacuache Núm. 921 (2020). 921 Año 19 (2020) febrero. El Tlacuache
No full textEl devenir de la infancia en México por Tania Alejandra Ramírez Rocha
El Tlacuache Núm. 926 (2020). 926 Año 19 (2020) marzo. El Tlacuache
No full text- La participación de la niñez en los huehuenches de Tlayacapan por Tania Ramírez Rocha y Patricia Ramírez Ramírez
The success of a collective mobilization
No full textTania Scacchetti, General Secretary of CGIL, introduces a comment on the collective agreement by Just Eat and Filt CIGL, Fit CISL, UIL Trasporti. The Author explains the
legislative and negotiating framework in which the last collective agreement was born and reconstructs the antecedents that led to its stipulation. She also discusses what she considers to be the salient parts of the contract, including the regulation of working time and rider compensation
The Affordable Care Act and Health Behaviors of the Young
No full textThe Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, and immediately enacted a provision that allowed young adults to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26. In my thesis, I estimate the impact of this provision on access to insurance, and health behaviors of the young. Health behaviors include primary care visits, vaccinations, and emergency room visits. I use a difference-in-differences approach using young adults aged 23-25 as a treatment group and adults aged 27-29 as a comparison group. The expansion provision of the bill led to higher rates of insurance coverage for young adults. There were no statistically significant effects on preventative or primary health care measures in the full sample. Minorities and those without college degrees experienced the highest increases in insurance coverage
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