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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
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'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?
Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of … education, which is the subject of this particular inquiry. Market definition is an essential preliminary step before any … higher education, those who provide inputs into the education process, or those who fund or otherwise subsidize it. The …
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy
Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822297
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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536008
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Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience
Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...
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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566831
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Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …
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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State
Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025603
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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil
Chioda, Laura; Mello, João M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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