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Great Expectations : The Determinants of Female University Enrollment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra - 2011
17-21 age group drawn from EU-Silc, available for the years 2004-2008. From the same survey we construct context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127634
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316054
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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
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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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317184
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The Dynamics of Income-Related Health Inequality Among US Children
Chatterji, Pinka - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120563
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Diminishing Health, Rising Health Care Costs and Long-Run Growth in Local Government Spending
Skidmore, Mark - 2016
costs, and diminishing health such as increasing in obesity (and associated physical health problems) as well behavioral … changing health, we find that increasing mental/emotional/physical health problems accounts for a significant portion of … that deteriorating mental/ emotional/physical health resulting from dietary changes and other factors has increased local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001151
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African-American and White Living Standards in the 19th Century American South : A Biological Comparison
Carson, Scott A. - 2006
By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780298
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Danzer, Natalia - 2017
's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953697
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The 'Healthy Worker Effect' : Do Healthy People Climb the Occupational Ladder?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities … shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational … standing. This paper documents evidence of non-negligible returns to occupation status on health (which we refer as ‘healthy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942008
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173