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We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
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significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...
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The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems isn't just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...
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recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …’ and spouse's education are considerably higher than the OLS estimates for returns to schooling, while the estimates which …
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This study is devoted to assessing the interdependencies between health, education and wealth at the aggregate regional … studies at micro and macroeconomic levels prove that there are causal relations between variables related to health, education … education have been revealed to have important effects in leading these economies. The results attained are likely contributions …
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This paper examines the causal relationships between human capital (Education, and Health) and Economic growth for the …-VAR investigations show bi-directional causality between Education and Health. Causality also exists from Education to Economic growth … show that the long-run dynamics of growth are slightly explained by past health and education level, and the health level …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …
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