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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...

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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)...

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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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Can the economic impact of political decentralisation be measured?

Ezcurra, Roberto; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in order to determine the association between a number of the different indices of political...

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