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The defaults of Philip II have attained mythical status as the origin of sovereign debt crises. We reassess the fiscal position of Habsburg Castile, deriving comprehensive estimates of revenue, debt, and expenditure from new archival data. The king’s debts were sustainable. Primary surpluses...
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, Spain is of particular interest as a result of the specific regional NHS decentralisation that started in the early 1980’s …
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history. Philip II of Spain entered into hundreds of contracts whose value and due date depended on verifiable, exogenous …
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Spain). Second, by considering the influence of unobserved heterogeneity in the estimation of the effect of our (carefully … strong impact on labour market decisions in Spain. Unemployment regulations are shown to be particularly influential for … especially interesting instance: the reform of early retirement provisions undertaken in Spain in 2002. We use a difference …
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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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first. Finally the trend of disability in Spain seems not to change among years and regional differences are not found. …
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Philip II of Spain accumulated debts equivalent to 60% of GDP. He also defaulted four times on his short-term loans …
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Spain. Exploiting regional variation over time, we find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is …
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This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of equity in access to health care in Spain over the period 1987 …
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In this paper we measure the degree of income related inequality in mental health as measured by the GHQ instrument and general health as measured by the EQOL-5D instrument for the Catalan population. We find that income is the main contributor to inequality, although the share of inequality in...
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