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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022 - Original version: January 2022, this version: September 2022
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...
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Demographic transition and political stability : does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2014
or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and …, we find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population (17 - 25 years old) within the … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
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The economic impact of demographic structure in OECD countries
Aksoy, Yunus; Grasl, Tobias; Smith, Ron - 2012
We examine the impact of demographic structure, the proportion of the population in each age group, on growth, savings, investment, hours, interest rates and inflation using a panel VAR estimated from data for 20 OECD economies, mainly for the period 1970-2007. This flexible dynamic structure...
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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
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Waiting longer before claiming, and activating youth : no point?
Cockx, Bart; Van Belle, Eva - 2016
counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact...
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Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act dependent care provision on military participation among young adults
Chatterji, Pinka; Liu, Xiangshi; Yörük, Barış K. - 2018
In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach, comparing the outcomes of young adults targeted by...
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Retirement, pensions, and ageing
Heijdra, Ben J. (contributor); Romp, Ward E. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497519
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Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change : the pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu
Taupo, Tauisi; Cuffe, Harold; Noy, Ilan - 2016
This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu. Small Island Developing States, particularly the atoll islands, are considered to be the most vulnerable to climatic change, and in particular to sea-level rise and its...
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Sri Lankan households a decade after the Indian Ocean tsunami
De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2016
We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years after the event, using a quasi-experimental method. A strong association between area-wide tsunami disaster shock and increases in household income and consumption in the...
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