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calibration, I argue that it can account for a substantial fraction of the history of European unemployment since World War II. As …
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In countries with high levels of ethnic diversity, “nation building” has been proposed as a mechanism for integration and conflict reduction. We find no evidence of lower intensity of national sentiment in more ethnically fragmented countries or in minority groups. National feelings in a...
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Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
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We develop a model capturing habit formation, projection bias, and present bias in an intertemporal-choice setting, and conduct a field experiment to identify its main parameters. We elicit subjects' pre- and post-treatment predictions of post-treatment gym attendance, using a habit-formation...
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The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on the facets of the Greek crisis via an analysis of …
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from the Greek crisis also involves an alteration in the ways that Greeks perceive and consider social reality and …
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fragile, eventually there is a crisis, and the industry shrinks. Our model thus captures important stylized facts of the …
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The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on the facets of the Greek crisis via an analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744857
estimates the impact of the 2009 global financial crisis on food expenditures, health care expenditures, and doctor visits in … between households that were crisis-affected and households that were not affected by the crisis. However the analysis finds … that crisis-affected poor families curtailed their out-of-pocket health expenditures during and after the crisis more than …
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At the height of the financial crisis, the Western welfare state prevented a repeat of the Great Depression. But there … were also suggestions that social policy had contributed to the crisis, particularly by promoting households’ access to … the welfare state contribution to the crisis directly but our findings suggest that the welfare state cannot generally be …
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