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Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel

Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - 2021

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

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International Determinants of Religiosity

Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - 2021

Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the … depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under … religion tends to increase religiosity, probably because of the subsidies that flow to organized religion. However, in …

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : Us vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Harmonizing and Combining Large Datasets - an Application to Firm-Level Patent and Accounting Data

Thoma, Grid - 2014

This paper discusses methods for the harmonization and combination of large-scale patent and trademark datasets with each other and other sources of data. Dictionary- and rule-based approaches to the consolidation of applicant names in patent data are presented and shown to have both benefits...

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One TV, One Price?

Imbs, Jean M. - 2010

We use a unique dataset on television prices across European countries and regions to investigate the sources of differences in price levels. Our findings are as follows: (i) Quality is a crucial determinant of price differences. Even in an integrated economic zone as Europe, rich economies tend...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2010

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2010

In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...

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Monetary Policy in Europe vs the Us : What Explains the Difference?

Uhlig, Harald - 2010

This paper compares monetary policy in the US and EMU during the last decade, employing an estimated hybrid New Keynesian cash-in-advance model, driven by five shocks. It appears that the difference between the two monetary policies between 1998 and 2006 is due to both surprises in productivity...

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian L. - 2008

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...

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Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and Us after 2001

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2008

. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general …

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