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that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … relative to men associated with changing cumulative net nutrition. The primary source of female-male within-group variation was …
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the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …
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Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
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. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …
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There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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contemporary economic growth. The negative effect of ethnic inequality is caused by increasing conflict and decreasing public goods …
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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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How does the memory of lives lost in past wars shape communities and the next generation of soldiers? We use newly collected geolocated data on British servicemen to study the legacy of the Great War mortality shock on local communities and the behaviour of soldiers in WW2. We find that...
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unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …
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The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This …-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic – in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …
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