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The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC
Naufal, George; Termos, Ali - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate the responsiveness of remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to the changes in the price of crude oil. Most of the GCC countries rank in the top 20 remitting countries in the world. We find that oil price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039650
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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, Hashem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527294
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Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
government expenditures (including Social Security and income assistance). Together, the reduction in smoking and the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976893
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The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822862
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The Effectiveness of Health Screening
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646336
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976885
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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128024
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Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128025
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Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168446
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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094087