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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267771
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
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Immigrant child poverty in Scandinavia: a panel data study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
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Legal Drinking, Injury and Harm: Evidence from the Introduction and Modifications of Age Limits in Denmark
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Nilsson, Anton - 2020
, most countries have implemented policies such as minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs). Denmark, a country with an … the MLDA in Denmark to estimate effects on all classes of injuries, as well as alcohol-related outcomes such as …
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Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Jakobsen, Vibeke; Mac Innes, … - 2021
, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …
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Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark
Altindag, Onur; Greve, Jane; Tekin, Erdal - 2022
), using population data from Denmark in a regression discontinuity research design. The information campaign …
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Reminder Design and Childhood Vaccination Coverage
Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective...
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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Universal Investments in Toddler Health. Learning from a Large Government Trial
Baker, Jennifer L.; Bjerregaard, Lise G.; Dahl, Christian M. - 2023
Exploiting a 1960s government trial in Copenhagen, we study the long-run and inter-generational effects of preventive care for toddlers. We combine administrative data with handwritten nurse records to document universal treatment take-up and positive health effects for treated children over the...
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