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International comparisons in health economics : evidence from aging studies
Banks, James; Smith, James P. - 2012
We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an early stage and limited to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530294
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248987
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Home-leaving decisions of daughters and sons
Chiuri, Maria Concetta; Del Boca, Daniela - 2010
In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we explore the impacts of various factors that affect daughters' and sons' home-leaving decisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950732
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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction : evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data
Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; … - 2023
they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437912
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887268
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Social media extensive use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence : evidence from British longitudinal data
McNamee, Paul; Mendolia, Silvia; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2019
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in economics to analyse the effect of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147005
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Manipulation of choice behavior
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; Tyson, Christopher J. - 2011
We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision making, with the agent's choices determined by three "psychological variables," we imagine that a subset of these variables can be selected by a "manipulator." To what extent does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312203
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The impact of adolescent motherhood on education in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana I. - 2014
We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339669
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La Meglio Gioventù : earnings gaps across generations and skills in Italy
Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - 2014
skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350381
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Euro, crisis and unemployment : youth patterns, youth policies?
Ghoshray, Atanu; Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector - 2016
afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …
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