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This study investigates which factors determine the teenagers’ attitudes toward human life among different ethnic groups, based on a unique survey data from Xinjiang juvenile students with their family, school and social information. We find that environment factors and education efforts mainly affect the teenagers’ attitudes to life value, but their ethnic groups have no effects. Reverence of life does not come from which ethnic group one belongs in, but comes from one’s environment and education. Reverence of life need to be cultivated.
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The first three authors share the first authorship. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for carefully reading this paper and having provided meaningful suggestions which helped improve the quality of paper. The research is supported by National Key Program of China, under grant No.2018AAA0101000.
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Haoming Ye is a PhD candidate at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, ChineseAcademy of Sciences. His research interests include corporate finance and asset pricing.
Yan Wang is a PhD candidate at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include credit risk and asset pricing.
Chang Lu is working at a financial enterprise. He obtained his PhD degree in management science from Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020. His research interests include investor behaviors, financial risks, and asset pricing.
Xiaoguang Yang is a professor at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his BSc and PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 1986, 1993 respectively. His research interests include economics, game theory, and operations research. He has published more than 300 journal papers.
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Ye, H., Wang, Y., Lu, C. et al. Reverence of Life in Teenagers’ Eyes. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 30, 363–379 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-021-5501-9
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