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The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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Competition and bank opacity

Jiang, Liangliang; Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin - In: The review of financial studies 29 (2016) 7, pp. 1911-1942

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The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life : Evidence from the National Child Development Survey

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from all those born in a single week in 1958 in Britain we track the consequences of short pain and chronic pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in 2008, when the Great Recession hit and then five years...

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Finance and Children’s Academic Performance

Hu, Qing - 2020

What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a … parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families … employment with adverse effects on children's education, we find that among low-income families, regulatory reforms: increased …

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International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

; is U-shaped in age and un-trended over time in the USA although they are trended up in a number of EU countries and …

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Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?

Laeven, Luc - 2005

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Money, Sex, and Happiness : An Empirical Study

Blanchflower, David G. - 2004

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual...

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Regulations, Market Structure, Institutions, and the Cost of Financial Intermediation

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2003

This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on...

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International Financial Integration and Economic Growth

Edison, Hali J. - 2002

This paper uses new data and new econometric techniques to investigate the impact of international financial integration on economic growth and also to assess whether this relationship depends on the level of economic development, financial development, legal system development, government...

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