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On the Causality Between Saving and Growth: Long- and Short-Run Dynamics and Country Heterogeneity

Andersson, Björn - 1999

. Saving and GDP are estimated in bivariate vector autoregressive or vector error-correction models for Sweden, UK, and USA …

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Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health : Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2017

An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields varying findings, which are likely due to differences in data, methods, samples, and institutional settings. Taking a more general...

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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

Banks, James W. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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Immigration and House Prices in the UK

Sá, Filipa - 2011

This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative effect on house prices and presents evidence that this negative effect is due to the mobility response of the native population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to...

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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder

Banks, James W. - 2015

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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography

Battistin, Erich - 2017

We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...

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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...

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Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK

Holly, Sean - 2010

This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to illustrate its use. Adjustment to shocks involves both a region specific and a spatial effect....

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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers

Ichino, Andrea - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …

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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Bjorklund, Anders - 2012

the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

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