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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition : Evidence from the Greek Famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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Early-Life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust Among Adults : Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979593
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The Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961 : County-Level Evidence
Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2018
This study provides evidence that the over-export of grains aggravated the severity of China's Great Famine. We collect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927746
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The Tempest : Natural Disasters, Early Shocks and Children's Short- and Long-Run Development
Deuchert, Eva - 2013
for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health … children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083878
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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2021
adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316226
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129859
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International Income Inequality : Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135914
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Democracy and Growth : Evidence of a New Measurement
Gründler, Klaus - 2016
very detailed measurement of democracy for 188 countries between 1981 and 2011. Application of the SVMDI highlights a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001148
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927189
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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source
Hanousek, Jan - 2008
Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...
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