The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …

Do gender differences matter for politicians’ budgetary behaviour when confronted with an exogenous change in the … municipalities from the Madrid region for 2010−2019, we compare gender differences in social services spending before and after the … differences between municipalities conditional on the gender composition of local governments, i.e. council and mayor. Whereas …

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and … medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health … state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on …