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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...
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The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
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The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and … developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …
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We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and … such associations do not fade over generations. We estimate that a one standard deviation change in ancestral health …
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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
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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 …
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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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different counterfactual post-Brexit scenarios, our main findings suggest that UKs (EUs) exports of goods to the EU (UK) are … effects for the EU are negligible in magnitude and statistically not different from zero …
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