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Birth in Times of War - an Investigation of Health, Mortality and Social Class Using Historical Clinical Records
Geiger, Nadine - 2019
weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872061
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How Culture Shapes Choices Related to Fertility and Mortality : Causal Evidence at the Swiss Language Border
Faessler, Lisa; Lalive, Rafael; Efferson, Charles - 2023
preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides … preferences and choices related to individual health and fertility. These findings further suggest that at least one of the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347354
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Demographic Change and Climate Change
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
The paper uses a continuous-time overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth and pollution accumulation over time to study the link between longevity and global warming. It is seen that increasing longevity accelerates climate change in a business-as-usual scenario without climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866368
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Fertility Changes and Replacement Migration
Aksoy, Yunus - 2020
significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822494
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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Satisfaction with Amenities and Taste for Revolt in the Middle East
Gholipour, Hassan F.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals’ satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347827
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281040
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On the policy implications of changing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2012
Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288249
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Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities During the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834997
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Diff-in-Diff in Death : Estimating and Explaining Artist-Specific Death Effects
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
We investigate how an artist's death impacts on the price of her artwork by estimating individual death effects of a sample of famous visual artists who died between 1985 and 2010. Using data from art auctions that took place in a narrow window around the artists' death, we apply various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838246