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Damned by dams? : infrastructure and conflict
Eberle, Ulrich J. - 2020
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The long shadow of the Kargil war
Bharati, Tushar - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208745
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740362
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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191363
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
, gender and education and strongly affect lifecycle wage profiles. The largest effects can be observed for younger cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962861
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Eating habits, food consumption, and health : the role of early life experiences
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Olivieri, Elisabetta; Triviza, … - 2023
once the shock is over. Specifically, we focus on individuals who were children during World War II and assess the …
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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health : disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre- pandemic information and have customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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Political salience and regime resilience
Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Huck, Steffen; … - 2023
We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents' expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives, and we show that comparative statics in salience...
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State repression, exit, and voice
Bühler, Mathias; Madestam, Andreas - 2023
What is the political legacy of state repression? Using local variation in state repression during the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, we investigate the effects of repression on political beliefs and behavior. We find that past state repression decreases votes for an authoritarian incumbent...
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Alert citizenry as an antidote to war
Corneo, Giacomo - 2023
What can be done to reduce the likelihood of future wars? While states’ decisions that bear on war are ultimately made … future wars. This thesis can be broken down into two claims: first, there is a war bias of political leaders; second, people … citizens have substantially divergent interests with respect to policies that risk the outbreak of war. Political leaders may …
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