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The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis
Barrett, Alan - 2013
The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth collapses and movements in variables such as health and...
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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Decerf, Benoit - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their...
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Widening Participation in Higher Education : Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
Chowdry, Haroon - 2010
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is unique in being able to follow two cohorts of students in England ﾖ those who took GCSEs...
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146822
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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S. student cohorts born between 1954 and 2001. Achievement gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840957
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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2020
Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we show that people with lower income, less flexible work...
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Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Gershenson, Seth - 2016
Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal … relationship between student absences and academic performance. Generally, student absences are associated with modest but … achievement in urban, rural, and suburban schools. In North Carolina, the harm associated with student absences is greater among …
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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