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Terror and the Costs of Crime
Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i … the tendency for individuals to stay home after a terror attack further increases the costs of crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519467
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Job Flows, Demographics and the Great Recession
Sierminska, Eva; Takhtamanova, Yelena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490045
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Corruption, Growth, and the Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis
Welsch, Heinz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068694
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Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called ”ethnic Germans” who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963620
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Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490046
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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Revising SWB Theory to Account for Change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568247
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Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Quantitative Survey Evidence from Post-War Northern Uganda
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, camp residents may be different from returnees. We merge household data with micro-level conflict data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151003
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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash … transfer policies may not necessarily hasten educational and gender transition in the process of development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836663
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Distributional Impact of the Great Recession on Industry Unemployment for 1976-2011
Takhtamanova, Yelena; Sierminska, Eva - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
The recession the United States economy entered in December of 2007 is considered to be the most severe downturn the country has experienced since the Great Depression. In this paper we decompose the changes in the unemployment rate by examining worker ows into and out of unemployment during the...
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The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Argentina hit world news headlines in 2002 due to the largest debt-default in history and a sudden economic collapse reminiscent of economic statistics from the Great Depression. In this article, we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious, but that may linger for...
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