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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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Informal Care and the Great Recession
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Karlsson, Martin; Øien, Henning - 2015
inclusion of individual characteristics, individual-specific effects and region-specific time trends. …
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The Intergenerational Transfer of the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2013
Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor force attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in labor force...
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The Parental Co-Immunization Hypothesis
Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
offer is that a parent's immune system is refreshed by a child's infections at a time when their own protection starts …
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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2013
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...
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Transportation Costs and the Great Divergence
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
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Institutional Reform and Depositors' Portfolio Choice - Evidence from Censored Quantile Regressions
Berlemann, Michael; Luik, Marc-André - 2014
in the age group of individuals which were too young at the time of German Reunification to have collected financial …
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Early-life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust among Adults: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...
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Working Time Regulation, Unequal Lifetimes and Fairness
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2016
We examine the redistributive impact of working time regulations in an economy with unequal lifetimes. It is shown that … uniform working time reductions, when uncompensated (i.e. constant hourly wage), can reduce inequalities in realized lifetime … short-lived worse off. When compensated (i.e. constant labour earnings), uniform working time reductions make the short …
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Growth and Welfare under Endogenous Lifetime
Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017
We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households’ savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending...
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