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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France
Blanchet, Didier - 2016
France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French labor participation rates over 50 is under way, partly due to the pension reforms that took place since 1993. The French ageing process is driven by large gains in life expectancy...
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2016
Longevity is increasing and many people are spending a greater proportion of their lives reliant on pensions to support consumption. In response to this, several countries have mandated delays to age of first entitlement to pension benefits in order to reduce incentives to retire early. However,...
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Welfare Reform and Health
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - 2021
We investigate the relationship between welfare reform and health insurance, health care utilization, and self … comparison groups). We find that welfare reform is associated with reductions in health insurance coverage and specific measures … no statistically significant effects of reform on health status. Overall, effects are somewhat larger for Hispanics …
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Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century : Was There a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2009
This paper considers the extent to which crime in the 19th century was conditioned on body weight. With data on inmates incarcerated in the Tennessee and Illinois state penitentiaries between 1831 and 1892, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the...
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected …
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Reshaping Institutions : Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan
Casey, Katherine P. - 2011
Although institutions are believed to be key determinants of economic performance, there is limited evidence on how they can be successfully reformed. Evaluating the effects of specific reforms is complicated by the lack of exogenous variation in the presence of institutions; the difficulty of...
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex - 2012
In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...
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The Euro and the Global Crises : Finding the Balance between Short Term Stabilization and Forward Looking Reforms
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
This paper analyzes reforms and adjustments in the context of the Euro and the global financial crises. Taking the perspective of the evolutionary approach to institutions, the formation of a new currency area is not unidirectional. The process leading to the euro is an example of a common...
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The … positive response to the reform is more pronounced in industries in which innovators rely more on patenting than in other …
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NIH Peer Review : Challenges and Avenues for Reform
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
and (2) the innovativeness of the research supported by the institutes. We identify potential avenues for reform as well …
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