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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...
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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for …
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Longevity, Retirement and Intra-Generational Equity
Hougaard Jensen, Svend E. - 2019
We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life expectancy magnifies the negative effect on the...
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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich - 2019
that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …
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The Effect of Public Corruption on COVID-19 Fatality Rate : A Cross-Country Examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...
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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 …
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
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Age and Health Related Inheritance Taxation
Leroux, M.‐L; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021
in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between …
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Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...
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