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The economics of abortion policy
Clarke, Damian - 2023
This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual circumstances. The economic literature on abortion policy is broad, studying abortion reforms that have...
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Mortgage finance and culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796425
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Top-down vs. bottom-up : the long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...
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Natural disaster, policy action, and mental well-being : the case of Fukushima
Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2013
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the...
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Successful scientific replication and extension of Levitt (2008) : child seats are still no safer than seat belts
Jones, Lauren E.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2014
Using US fatality data from 1975 to 2003, Levitt (2008) shows that child safety seats do not significantly reduce fatalities for children aged two to six as compared to standard seat belts. Although we were unable to gain access to the original programs and dataset used, we were able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423768
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Living arrangements in Western Europe : does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola (contributor) - 2006
conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. -- culture ; living arrangements ; immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301660
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Does culture affect divorce decisions? : evidence from European immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249399
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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015
Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470405
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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …
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