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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826046
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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict
Gehring, Kai - 2019
prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in Afghanistan. There are two main mechanisms. First, household living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860581
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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E.; Kotschy, Rainer; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2022
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081589
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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households
Roth, Anja - 2019
We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892274
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219076
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The global joint distribution of income and health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2008
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264413
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Appropriate Fiscal Policy Over the Business Cycle : Proper Stimulus Policies Can Work
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
meaningfully progress in terms of providing useful recommendations for policy-makers, particularly in times of recession. Others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139182
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational mobility and unemployment duration over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833736
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Currency Portfolio of External Debt, Exchange Rate Cyclicality, and Consumption Volatility
Fujii, Eiji - 2020
Even though external debt can play a buffer role against adverse shocks to assist consumption smoothing, it may also exert a volatility amplifying effect, depending on the currency of denomination and the cyclicality of the borrower's exchange rate. We empirically investigate the nexus between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833738
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The Effects of Graduating from High School in a Recession : College Investments, Skill Formation, and Labor-Market Outcomes
Hampf, Franziska - 2020
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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