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Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency
Cahuc, Pierre - 2009
, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073844
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Who Cares About Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health
Ratcliffe, Anita - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...
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Do Board Gender Quotas Matter? Selection, Performance and Stock Market Effects
Ferrari, Giulia - 2018
From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies listed on the stock market. Comparing before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920456
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When the Market Drives You Crazy : Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
Giulietti, Corrado - 2018
The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912252
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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2013
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092819
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Exponent of Cross-Sectional Dependence : Estimation and Inference
Bailey, Natalia - 2012
An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110862
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul - 2014
's propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their … men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057050
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Naci H. - 2014
schooling on self-reported religiosity, social religious acts (attending religious services), as well as solitary religious acts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039600
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The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors
Mendolia, Silvia - 2018
We investigate the relationship between religiosity and risky behaviors in adolescence using data from a large and …-reported importance of religion and on the risk of youths having early sexual intercourse, drinking underage, trying cigarettes, trying …-esteem, and external locus of control. Our results show that individuals with low religiosity are more likely to engage in risky …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917087