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In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000...
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We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...
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Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state … hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …-related hospitalizations. Applying difference-in-differences methods, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations …
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