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This paper describes a package which uses MATLAB functions and routines to estimate VARs, local projections and other …
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This paper presents the MATLAB package DeCo (density combination) which is based on the paper by Billio, Casarin … use the MATLAB parallel computing toolbox and show how to use general purpose GPU computing almost effortlessly. This GPU … implementation provides a speed up of the execution time of up to seventy times on a standard CPU MATLAB implementation on a …
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they are potentially jointly determined with schooling. For this purpose, we use the 2018 Turkish Demographic and Health …
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The impact of recessions on school enrollment is ambiguous. On one hand, recessions might increase the likelihood of enrollment due to decreasing opportunity costs of attending school. On the other hand, recessions might discourage enrollment due to reductions households have in funds available...
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In Kenya, educational enrollment rates increased significantly for both girls and boys after 2003, when primary education became free of charge. Unfortunately, approximately one million school-aged children are still not enrolled in school. Earlier literature provides empirical evidence that...
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While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper …
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In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children's home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …
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- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both … experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …
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