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. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
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This study analyses age-specific differences in income trends in nine European countries. Based on data from National … Accounts and the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, we quantify age-specific changes in income between … 2008 and 2017 and decompose these changes into employment, wages, and public transfer components. Results show that income …
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Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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This paper investigates the linkages between the environment, income and migration, exploring the role that … allows for the estimation of a migration decision function in two stages, relating migration to income and the environment …, and accounting for the self-selection of migrants. The model in fact consists of two income equations, which explain …
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …
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I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
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in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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