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A "Healthy Immigrant Effect" or a "Sick Immigrant Effect"? Selection and Policies Matter
Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2015
data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …
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Micro and macro determinants of health: Older immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014
We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481648
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The Variability and Volatility of Sleep: An Archetypal Approach
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022
individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 … that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269754
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275920
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Estimating obesity rates in the presence of measurement error
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2013
Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for possible measurement error. We combine self-reported data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293144
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Star Wars: The empirics strike back
Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - 2013
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293191
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Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?
Pencavel, John - 2015
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307383
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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia
Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti - 2015
This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size...
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Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Chen, Xuan; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2015
We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) training program for disadvantaged youth. We concentrate on the population average treatment effect (ATE) and the average...
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