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OECD Publishing, 2018
People with higher levels of education report less prevalence of depression in all OECD countries with data. A greater share of women than men report suffering from depression, but the share decreases more steeply for women than for men as educational attainment increases. Employment is associated with a lower share of self-reported depression,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Educational Attainment, Incidence, Gender Differences
Gould, Eric D.; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, M. Daniele – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
This paper estimates the effect of the childhood environment on a large array of social and economic outcomes lasting almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1949 Magic Carpet operation, where over 50,000 Yemenite immigrants were airlifted to Israel. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Children, Early Experience
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Charme, Stuart Z. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2009
This article describes results from interviews with Jewish teenagers about the tension between adherence to tradition and commitment to egalitarianism in relation to issues like women in the rabbinate, women wearing ritual garments like "kipot" and "talitot", and gender separation at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. For many…
Descriptors: Jews, Females, Adolescents, Foreign Countries