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Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first’ gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters...
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In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …
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for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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incentives. We study how two changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2003/04 and 2004/05 have affected mortality during the turns …
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incentives. We study how two changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2003/04 and 2004/05 have affected mortality during the turns …
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very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality conditional on the mode of OAC. Three forms of publicly provided OAC are … mortality among cohabitants with home-help services, while it is higher among cohabitants with special accommodation. Our …
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This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …
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This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major edu-cational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on mens ferti-lity decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …
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Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
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Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
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