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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Measuring the Quality of the Home Environment of Young Children in Uruguay : Socioeconomic Gradients in the Home Inventory
López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
Uruguay is one of very few countries in Latin America that has a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of early childhood development. In 2015–2016, during the second wave of the survey, an observational module on the home environment was administered at scale for the first time. The...
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Delivering Parenting Interventions Through Health Services in the Caribbean
Walker, Susan - 2019
There is limited information on whether integrating childhood interventions with health and nutrition services interventions is effective and feasible. In this trial we used group delivery at five routine visits from age 3-18 months, and comprised: short films of child development messages,...
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State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context
Ayhan, Sinem - 2016
This study contributes to the ongoing debate about welfare dependency centered on the western societies through an empirical analysis, within the context of a developing country. It examines state dependence in social assistance benefit receipt using longitudinal data from Turkey, where benefit...
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2007
We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence...
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The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea
Chae, Seyoung - 2017
This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
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How Does Exposure to Covid-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?
Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2021
, and Germany, as well as the effect of personal shocks on employment (redundancies, government replacement salary and …
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The Persistence of Welfare Participation
Andrén, Thomas - 2021
-run effects of receiving social assistance on future household earnings and disposable income. The results show that state … future earnings, we find a strong and persistent effect over the whole observation window, while no such effect could be … is similar for both Swedish-born and foreign-born, even though the negative earnings effect is somewhat larger for the …
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State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation
Hansen, Jorgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - 2021
This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...
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