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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well … sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the Nordics, are … not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This means that the …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729229
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Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020
We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...
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Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2019
The international development community has used the World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...
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The effects of sleep duration on child health and development
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2022
This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development in children and adolescents. Using over 50 thousand time use diaries from two cohorts of Australian children spanning over 16 years, we first document that children sleep...
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Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Pullinger, John; Serajuddin, Umar; … - 2024
Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. We offer the first review study that fills this gap, paying particular attention to data and practical measurement challenges. We compare...
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Solar cycles and time allocation of children and adolescents
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily solar cycles. Utilizing a dataset of over 50,000 time-use diaries from two Australian cohorts spanning 16 years and employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a...
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Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jolliffe, Dean; Serajuddin, Umar; … - 2024
A country's statistical capacity takes an indispensable part in its development. We offer a comprehensive comparison between the World Bank's Statistical Performance Indicators and Index (SPI) and its predecessor, the Statistical Capacity Index (SCI) regarding different conceptual and empirical...
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More insecure and less paid? The effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution
Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018
This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap, over the entire wage distribution, between secure and insecure workers on the basis of perceived job insecurity. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950273
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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects: which one is stronger? Evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics
Demidova, Olga; Kolyagina, Alena; Pastore, Francesco - 2019
This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian regions, Marshallian or Jacobs, and whether this...
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