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Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI).We find that...
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Prussia Disaggregated : The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns …
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Demography of Global Aging
Bloom, David E. - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2012
from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify …
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced internationalcapital flows by examining the …
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The Worth of Cities in Germany
Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023
and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …
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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …
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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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