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In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta … "iron-law" rate of 2%. In the post-1960s panel, estimation without country fixed effects supports the modernization … long-term panel with country fixed effects also supports modernization, in the sense of positive effects of per capita GDP …
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Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries … level. Weekly forecasts from our model are published at https://laurayuliu.com/covid19-panel-forecast …
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We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …
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Germany is an interesting country to study saving among older households since nearly everyone - whether in the middle … the so-called SAVE panel, specifically collected to understand economic, psychological and sociological determinants of …. We suspect large cohort differences and will study them once further waves of the SAVE panel will become available …
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The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … the measurement of pain and model specification. We contribute to this literature using large-scale panel data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 2002 to 2018. We show that pain leads to job loss. Workers suffering pain …
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We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …
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micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully exploits the longitudinal dimension of the underlying datasets …
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The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...
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The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural...
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