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González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

I document extremely son-biased sex ratios at birth among Asian-born parents in Spain. Using data on the universe of … registered births in Spain during 2007- 2012, I show that there are 117 boys per 100 girls born to Indian parents, compared with …

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Risk Sharing with the Monarch: Excusable Defaults and Contingent Debt in the Age of Philip II, 1556-1598

Drelichman, Mauricio; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

history. Philip II of Spain entered into hundreds of contracts whose value and due date depended on verifiable, exogenous …

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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is it Good to be Born in Bad Times?

Aparicio, Ainhoa; González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …

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The Impact of Spanish Pension Reform on Expenditure: a Quick Estimate

Fuente, Angel de la; Doménech, Rafael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

In this paper we present a preliminary estimate of the impact of the recent agreement between the Spanish government and the social partners to reform the public contributive pension system. After updating the projections of pension expenditure constructed in de la Fuente and Doménech (2010)...

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Transition Probabilities and Duration Analysis among Disability States: Some Evidence from Spanish Data

López-Casasnovas, Guillem; Nicodemo, Catia - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

first. Finally the trend of disability in Spain seems not to change among years and regional differences are not found. …

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A System of Regionalized Public Accounts For Spain Methodology and Results for 2005

Fuente, Angel de la; Barberan, Ramón; Uriel, Ezequiel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

This paper develops a methodology for the construction of a System of Regionalized Public Accounts (SRPA) using a burden-benefit approach and applies this methodology to the year 2005. The SRPA provides a detailed picture of the regional distribution of the tax burden and of the benefits arising...

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A Simple Model of Aggregate Pension Expenditure

Fuente, Angel de la - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

characteristics of the average pensioner and in the parameters that describe how pensions are calculated in Spain as a function of …

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Retirement Incentives, Individual Heterogeneity and Labour Transitions of Employed and Unemployed Workers

García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

Spain). Second,by considering the inﬂuence of unobserved heterogeneity in the estimation of the effectof our (carefully … impact on labour market decisions in Spain. Unemployment regulations are shown to be particularly inﬂuential for retirement … instance: the reform of early retirement provisions undertaken in Spain in 2002. We use a difference-in-difference approach to …

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Violence and Displacement in Civil War. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Balcells, Laia - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

This paper explores the relationship between violence and displacement during civil war focusing on two different forms of population movements (i.e. incoming and outgoing), and two different forms of violence (i.e. direct and indirect). The paper explores the relationship between displacement...

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Cross-Country Data on the Quantity of Schooling: a Selective Survey and Some Quality Measures

Fuente, Angel de la; Doménech, Rafael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of...

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