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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763
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The EMS Crisis in Retrospect
Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper reconsiders the 1992/3 crisis in the European Monetary System in light of its emerging market successors. That episode was a predecessor of the Mexican and Asian crises in the sense that both capital movements and domestic financial fragility played important roles. The output effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067395
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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656201
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The Mother of All Sudden Stops: Capital Flows and Reversals in Europe, 1919-1932
Accominotti, Olivier; Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
financial centers at the end of the 1920s figured importantly in the decline in foreign lending. We draw parallels with Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084387
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … Europe it has mainly the function of a buffer and of a “balm for the soul”. There is an extensive literature on the ‘bridge …
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Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe After World War II
Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
length before or since. The elements of Europe's growth miracle -- wage moderation, high investment and rapid export growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792491