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Health risk factors among the older European populations : personal and country effects
García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - 2014
It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413782
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Intergenerational residence patterns and COVID-19 fatalities in the EU and the US
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245063
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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of COVID-19
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022
Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345887
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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022
Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358768
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On the political economics of tax reforms
Castanheira, Micael; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A.; Profeta, Paola - 2011
There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an "optimal" tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240753
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Satisfaction with democracy and the environment in Western Europe : a panel analysis
Wagner, Alexander F. (contributor);  … - 2006
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253466
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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament
Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021
In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517500
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Second-generation immigrants and native attitudes toward immigrants in Europe
Barrera, Oscar; Bensidoun, Isabelle; Edo, Anthony - 2022
This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272268
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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022
We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288023
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The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg's ordoliberalism
Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2020
In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405461