Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice

School performance and parental choice of school : secondary data analysis

tehran secondary school students’ attitudes toward addiction

the recent studies point to this fact that modifying the people’s viewpoints on drugs fr om positive to negative can play an important role as a preventive step, because of a direct link that exists between attitude and getting involved with drugs. as an introductory, the youngesters’ viewpoints on drags has been brought into consideration to make possible such a planning. in this regard, 1403 ...

Portfolio Choice and Risk Attitudes: An Experiment

Using financial incentives, we study how portfolio choice (how much to invest in a risky asset) depends on three well-known behavioral phenomena: ambiguity aversion, the illusion of control, and myopic loss aversion. We find evidence that these phenomena are present and test how the level of investment is affected by these motivations; at the same time, we investigate whether participants are w...

Knowledge and attitudes towards tuberculosis among secondary school students in rural areas in Hormozgan, Southern Iran

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in developing countries and is responsible for about 25% of all preventable deaths. Therefore we aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude towards TB among guidance school in rural areas of Bandarabbas in 2010. Methods and Materials: In this cross sectional study our samples were selected using clus...

Parental alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and risk of infant leukemia: a Childrens Cancer Group study.

BACKGROUND Whether parental drinking and smoking during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of cancer in offspring is controversial. There are some indications that maternal alcohol consumption is associated with an elevated risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) appearing in very young children. Evidence for an association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk of leukemi...