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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood

Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...

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Who marries differently-aged spouses? : Earnings, ability and appearance

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2011

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000...

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Age effects in the Okun's law within the eurozone

Hutengs, Oliver; Stadtmann, Georg - 2012

We estimate Okun coefficients for five different age cohorts for several Eurozone countries. We find a stable pattern for all countries: The relationship between business-cycle fluctuations and the unemployment rate is the strongest for the youngest cohort and gets smaller for the elderly...

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Age effects and heuristics in decision making

Besedeš, Tibor; Deck, Cary A.; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2010

Using controlled experiments, we examine how individuals make choices when faced with multiple options. Choice tasks are designed to mimic the selection of health insurance, prescription drug, or retirement savings plans. In our experiment, available options can be objectively ranked allowing us...

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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U profile"?

Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007

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Individual risk attitudes : new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...

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Reducing binge drinking? : the effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state … hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …-related hospitalizations. Applying difference-in-differences methods, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations …

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