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Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates...

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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Do Europeans Care About Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings

Nowakowski, Adam - 2020

Economists have proposed a variety of sophisticated climate-change interventions. But do our citizens care enough about climate change to enact such policies? This paper provides evidence that suggests they do not. Two kinds of findings are presented. Using data on 40,000 Europeans from the 2016...

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Health Status and the Allocation of Time : Cross-Country Evidence from Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2014

This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...

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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

Blanchflower, David G. - 2014

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to …

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Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children : Evidence from Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Sevilla … - 2021

-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in … differential impact on partnership formation rates in Northern and Southern Europe due to the different social norms regarding the … partnership formation rates in Southern Europe …

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Hypertension and Happiness Across Nations

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...

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Co-Authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics : Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach

Molina, Jose Alberto - 2016

identify and determine the collaborative structure of economics research in Spain, with its primary communities and figures of …

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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals : Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise in UK universities, often come under pressure to assess research …

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