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Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship status. For couples, additional analysis considers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
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Allergy test : seasonal allergens and performance in school
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2014
Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415292
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When the market drives you crazy : stock market returns and fatal car accidents
Guilietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...
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Relationship between the real estate sector and the stock market in Chinese provinces
Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022
data from 2000 to 2016. Various panel unit root, co-integration, and model specification and estimation tests are carried …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172898
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Educational production in East Asia : the impact of family background and schooling policies on student performance
Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743860
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Skewness expectations and portfolio choice
Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022
Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...
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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
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A survey of hedge and safe havens assets against G-7 stock markets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ozdemir, Huseyin; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2021
We propose a new Sharpe ratio index obtained from return and volatility spillover indices to individual assets from the …-7 stock markets by using daily return and volatility data from September 2013 to October 2021. Our empirical findings …
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International specialization and the return to capital
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
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Testing CAPM with a large number of assets
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2012
This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...
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