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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884101
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279271
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Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences
Zimmermann, Christian; Gollin, Douglas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of "acute illness" and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub- Saharan Africa....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763773
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734424
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884245
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The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959539
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959583
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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959641
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
has implications for growth policy and our understanding of the long-run relationship between GDP and subjective well-being. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210821
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279243