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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes

Crayen, Dorothee - 2013

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … respondent has a formal funeral cover increases with income and banking status. However, it is lower for individuals receiving … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …

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Revisit asymmetric causal link between insurance activity and output in the United States

Chang, Tsangyao; Peng, Yi-Ting - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 16 (2017) 7, pp. 719-726

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Stock Markets, Banks and Long Run Economic Growth : A Panel Cointegration-Based Analysis

Cavenaile, Laurent - 2013

The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...

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The Nature of Risk Preferences : Evidence from Insurance Choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2021

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates 'standard …

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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles

Jordà, Òscar - 2015

This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...

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The Trend of BMI Values by Centiles of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2021

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...

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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...

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