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Female and male body mass, height, and weight during US economic development: 1860s-1930s
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of biological measures are now standard in economics. This study uses late 19th and early 20th century BMI, statures, and weight to assess how net nutrition accumulated to women and men during US economic development....
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The causal effects of place on health and longevity
Deryugina, Tatyana; Molitor, David - 2021
affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that … place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628696
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Omitting the obvious : cohort effects in 19th and 20th century BMI variation
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
Peer and cohort effects are important in health economics, and obesity may be related to social relationships, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415432
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The cost of binge drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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Testing for output convergence : a re-examination
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2000
This paper investigates output convergence for the G7 countries using multivariate time series techniques. We consider both the null hypotheses of no convergence and convergence. It is shown that inferences on output convergence depend on which one of the two null hypotheses is considered....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781596
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Variable selection and inference for multi-period forecasting problems
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Pick, Andreas; Timmermann, Allan - 2009
This paper conducts a broad-based comparison of iterated and direct multi-step forecasting approaches applied to both univariate and multivariate models. Theoretical results and Monte Carlo simulations suggest that iterated forecasts dominate direct forecasts when estimation error is a...
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Testing unemployment theories : a multivariate long memory approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Lovcha, … - 2014
This paper investigates the empirical relevance of different unemployment theories in three major economies, namely the UK, the US and Japan, by estimating the degree of dependence in the unemployment series. Both univariate and multivariate long memory methods are used. The results vary...
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A good sign for multivariate risk taking
Eeckhoudt, Louis R. (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377063
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A multivariate long-memory model with structural breaks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496720