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Fake News and Indifference to Truth: Dissecting Tweets and State of the Union Addresses by Presidents Obama and Trump

Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Reid, David McHardy - 2018

State of the Union Addresses (SOUA) by two recent US Presidents, President Obama (2016) and President Trump (2018), and a series of recent of tweets by President Trump, are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments...

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Marriage Markets and Single Motherhood in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble Y. - 2006

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

de Haan, Monique - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of sibship size and birth order on educational attainment, for the United States and the Netherlands. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the effect of sibship size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex...

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition

Lach, Saul; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis - 2009

This paper examines how the distribution of prices changes with the number of competitors in the market. Using gasoline price data from the Netherlands we find that as competition increases, the distribution of prices spreads out: the low prices go down while the high prices go up, on average....

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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis

Münch, Claudia; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2009

We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...

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New Developments in the Measurement of Welfare and Well-being

van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Plug, Erik J.S. - 2012

This paper is dating from 1995, when it has been presented at the Ragnar Frisch Centennial Memorial Conference in Oslo. It has never been published before.In this paper for the first time the Cantril ladder question data have been employed in the way which later has become known as happiness...

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Malaria Control and Infant Mortality in Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019

Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the...

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Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, an Equilibrium Approach

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Hop, J. Peter - 2018

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully funded occupational pension systems, and mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go. The specific mixture of the three systems we will call the pension composition....

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Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes

Atella, Vincenzo; di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2020

This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy...

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