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'Cultural Persistence' of Health Capital : Evidence from European Migrants
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968639
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034803
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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316486
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Stress and Coping - An Economic Approach
Wälde, Klaus - 2018
We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via cognitive load. Coping can be under the control of the individual or more automatic. We predict the occurrence of uncontrolled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918055
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117782
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - 2021
Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve highquality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316438
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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data
Flam, Harry - 2011
Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects on the extensive margin and to obtain controls for firm...
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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence
Simonovska, Ina - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129252
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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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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129862