analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly … recently developed strategy using Granger causality tests of Adams et al. (2003, Journal of Econometrics) with tests for … causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of …

effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes … a time series setting. This leads to a generalized definition of Sims (1980) causality. A technical contribution is the … dependent data and allowing for first-step estimation of the propensity score. …

highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may as well signal high costs for labor markets. The impact of exchange … rate volatility on labor markets in the CEECs is analyzed, finding that volatility vis?- vis the euro significantly lowers … employment growth. Hence, the elimination of exchange rate volatility could be considered as a substitute for a removal of …

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of … Acyclic Graphs (DAG) used in one influential recent approach to causality (Pearl, 2000) and in the related literature on … Pearl in securing identification of economic models. We extend our framework to consider models for simultaneous causality …

effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics …

parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality …. Anticipated and realized subjective and objective outcomes are distinguished. Models for simultaneous causality are developed. The … paper contrasts the Neyman-Rubin model of causality with the econometric approach. …