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The Causal Effect of Depression and Anxiety on Life Satisfaction : An Instrumental Variable Approach

Buason, Arnar; Norton, Edward C.; McNamee, Paul; Edda … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

depression and anxiety on life satisfaction by applying an instrumental-variable regression approach to the Household, Income and …Within the vast body of literature on the relationship between mental disorders and life satisfaction, no satisfactory … Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Our identification strategy exploits regional variation in the tendency to …

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Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

Basu, Susanto - 1999

This paper examines business cycles theoretically and empirically, with a quantitative study based on experience over the long run and in a cross section of countries. Several major questions in business cycle theory are explored. Theoretical concerns indicate that the properties of business...

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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...

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Handedness and Earnings

Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2006

We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...

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Australian Government Balance Sheet Management

Au-Yeung, Wilson - 2006

sheet liabilities, such as public sector superannuation. Australia will be developing a significant financial asset …

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The Relationship Between Exchange Rates and Inflation Targeting Revisited

Edwards, Sebastian - 2006

This paper deals with the relationship between inflation targeting and exchange rates. I address three specific issues: first, I analyze the effectiveness of nominal exchange rates as shock absorbers in countries with inflation targeting. This issue is closely related to the magnitude of the...

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The Value of Peripatetic Economists : A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

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Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data : An Application to Electricity Markets

Wolak, Frank A. - 2001

hedge contract data obtained from the first three months of operation of the National Electricity Market (NEM1) in Australia …

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

Taylor, Alan M. - 1996

Although the empirical growth literature has yielded many findings on postwar convergence patterns, it has had little to say about the determinants of convergence in earlier epochs. This paper investigates convergence for group of seven countries during the period 1870-1914, the last great phase...

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