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The earnings of American Jewish men : human capital, denomination and religiosity
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Huang, Jidong (contributor) - 2006 - Rev
"This paper analyzes the determinants of the earnings of American Jewish men using the 2000/01 National Jewish Population Survey. Non-response to the question on earnings is analyzed. Earnings are related to conventional human capital variables, as well as Jewish-specific variables. Except for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373401
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Religion and child health
Chiswick, Barry R.; Mirtcheva, Donka M. - 2010
Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …: whether there is a religious affiliation (and what kind), the importance of religion, and the frequency of church attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011533
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Religiosity and migration : travel into one's self versus travel across cultures
Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011
, religious pluralism, religious freedom, and societal attitudes towards religion are important predictors of religiosity. These …. -- economics of religion ; religiosity ; immigrants ; secularization ; culture ; integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307590
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Parity reversion in real exchange rates : fast, slow, or not at all?
Cashin, Paul A.; McDermott, John - In: IMF staff papers 53 (2006) 1, pp. 89-119
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335882
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727
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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586563
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A new database of financial reforms
Abiad, Abdul; Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry - In: IMF staff papers 57 (2010) 2, pp. 281-302
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003987388
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Special issue : frontiers of research on financial globalization
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829914
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Financial globalization : a reappraisal
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - In: IMF staff papers 56 (2009) 1, pp. 8-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829922