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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities : Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2015

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …

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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021

Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period 2000-2008, considering 5 manufacturing and services industries that differ in the … level of technological intensity. Industries in the Netherlands are characterized by a larger average proportion of high …

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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021

structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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Old‐Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends : Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries

Aliaj, Arjeta - 2016

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …

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