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A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary...
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stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized … a flat 5 percent for the rest of the distribution. Households' consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend …
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Using panel data on a 20% random sample of Canadian taxpayers, we study behavioral responses to the cancellation of a lifetime capital gains exemption that resulted in increased capital gains taxation for some individuals. The unique setting allows us to distinguish between short-term avoidance...
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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …
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China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the …
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This paper studies the effects of capital tax reforms on retained earnings, dividend tax revenues, and income … inequality in Israel between 2001 and 2020. We analyze two major dividend tax reforms: a permanent rate increase in 2012 and a … increase in the dividend tax rate resulted in an immediate increase of over 100% in the withdrawal of retained earnings and in …
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Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of …
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. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …
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This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a …
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