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different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …
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-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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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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Peer and cohort effects are important in health economics, and obesity may be related to social relationships, where obese individuals interact with other obese individuals. There were significant 19th century cohort effects, where BMIs were related to the cohort that an individual belonged....
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In this paper, we explore the degree of anchoring of consumers' individual long-run inflation expectations utilizing the University of Michigan Survey of Consumer's rotating panel micro-structure. Our results indicate that long-run inflation expectations became more anchored over the last...
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The increase in employment polarization observed in several high-income economies has coincided with a reduction in … polarization, we examine how parental income affects both entry occupations and occupational upgrading over careers. We find that … transitions across occupations are key to mobility and that the impact of parental income has grown over time. At regional level …
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Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more … attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position …
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and age distribution across countries in a fundamental way. In this paper we focus on the income consequences of these … changes for the global income distribution. Key in this respect are changes in the so-called demographic dividend associated … demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …
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