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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a...

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Sources of Bias in Women's Wage Equations : Results Using Sibling Data

Neumark, David - 1992

We use data on sisters to jointly address heterogeneity bias and endogeneity bias in estimates of wage equations for … are detected only when these two sources of bias are addressed simultaneously. For both white and black women there is … evidence of upward bias in the estimated returns to schooling. Bias-corrected estimates of the effect of marriage on wages, for …

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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic : Lessons from the “Spanish Flu” for the Coronavirus’s Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity

Barro, Robert J. - 2020

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2.1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths...

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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times : Evidence From the OECD

Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2002

This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase when labor markets strengthen. For instance,...

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Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters

Arthi, Vellore - 2017

boom. Overall, our results suggest that migration can meaningfully bias estimates of the impact of business …

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Economic Conditions and Mortality : Evidence from 200 Years of Data

Cutler, David M. - 2016

Using data covering over 100 birth-cohorts in 32 countries, we examine the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions on mortality. We find that small, but not large, booms increase contemporary mortality. Yet booms from birth to age 25, particularly those during adolescence, lower...

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Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality

Heutel, Garth - 2013

Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but little analysis has been conducted investigating the role of environmental risks as potential mechanisms for this relationship. We investigate the contribution of air pollution...

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...

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Price Flexibility, Credit Rationing, and Economic Fluctuations : Evidence from the U.S., 1879-1914

Calomiris, Charles W. - 1985

The reawakening of interest in links between price flexibility and fluctuations in economic activity calls for a reconsideration of models of price and quantity adjustment. We examine relationships between credit disturbances and real activity under flexible prices, using monthly data on real...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...

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