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effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 …
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of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …
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absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … negative effects on health outcomes or perceived liquidity constraints …
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considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …
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Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured … and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with … necessity of multitasking affect health in the same direction. If employees get help if needed from their colleagues and if they …
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This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing … urban areas and that these improvements in air quality translate into population health benefits. The number of diagnoses …
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Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine geographic differences in both absolute earnings and relative earnings for economic majors. We...
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is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas …
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Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
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