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Demographic change and regional labour markets

Böhm, Michael; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020

Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial … supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes, drawing on the identification strategy of Böhm and Siegel (2020 … age rises. A decomposition of the heterogeneous regional trends using our estimates shows that ageing of rural regions is …

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Do remittances increase borrowing?

Ambrosius, Christian; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2014

While recent literature has pointed out that migrants ́remittances have a positive impact on savings with financial institutions, findings with respect to access to and the use of loans have been ambiguous. This paper investigates whether the reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans...

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Long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870) : from male scarcity to intimate partner violence

Boggiano, Barbara - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The identification of these causal effects relies on a novel historical dataset from which I exploit the distance from municipalities to military camps during the war. Over 130 years...

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Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments

Schwardmann, Peter - 2017

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...

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Behavioural response to a sudden health risk : Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia

Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2017

Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...

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A rural health supplement to the hookworm intervention in the American South

Fox, Jonathan; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation's Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to...

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Breaking the silence : group discussions, and the adoption of welfare-improving technologies

Castro, Silvia; Mang, Clarissa - 2023

Social pressure and stigma can hinder the adoption of available technologies, especially in the context of sensitive health issues. We run a field experiment on the take-up of menstrual products in Bangladesh and test a discussion-based intervention in a work setting. We vary participation in...

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Household savings, capital investments and public policies : what drives the German current account?

Ruppert, Kilian; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020

could not absorb these additional sav-ings, they were partly invested abroad. The German current account-to-GDP ratiorose …

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Personality traits across the life cycle : disentangling age, period, and cohort effects

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Mena, Gary; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian; … - 2019

Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on...

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