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Electoral rules and corruption
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido Enrico; Trebbi, Francesco - 2001
Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems influence corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the...
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Smoking habits : like father, like son, like mother, like daughter
Loureiro, Maria L.; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Vuri, Daniela - 2009
We use instrumental variable methods to investigate whether the impact of parental smoking habits on their children …
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The benefits and costs of newer drugs : evidence from the 1996 medical expenditure panel survey
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2000
The nation's spending for prescription drugs has grown dramatically in recent years. Previous studies have shown that the replacement of older drugs by newer, more expensive, drugs is the single most important reason for this increase, but they did not measure how much of the difference between...
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Sources of US longevity increase, 1960 - 1997
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2000
Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10% G from 69.7 to 76.5 years G and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly equaled the gains in tangible consumption. While life expectancy has tended to increase, there...
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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002
We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
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Vertical transmission of overweight : evidence from English adoptees
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - 2015
We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …
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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015
from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?
Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003
respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …
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Children do not behave like adults : gender gaps in performance and risk taking within a random social context in the high-stakes game shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy
Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Sjögren Lindquist, Gabriella - 2014
Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
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