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The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on the health system in Turkey and infant, child, and elderly mortality among natives
Aygün, Aysun; Kirdar, Murat G.; Tuncay, Berna - 2020
infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality - with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality. Our OLS results yield … suggestive evidence of a negative effect of the refugee shock on infant and child mortality. However, we find that this is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628447
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On the origin of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140922
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A universal child grant in Brazil: What must we do, and what can we expect from it?
Soares, Sergei; Ansiliero, Graziela; Amaral, Aline Diniz; … - 2019
The objective of this paper is to propose a universal child grant for Brazil. We will discuss the rationality behind … proposed allowance is based on the unification of the three child allowances that currently exist in the country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030407
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - 2013
We demonstrate a striking but previously unnoticed relationship between city size and the black-white wage gap, with the gap increasing by 2.5% for every million-person increase in urban population. We then look within cities and document that wages of blacks rise less with agglomeration in the...
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - 2007
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh; Narciso, Gaia - 2015
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
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Modeling inter-regional patient mobility: Does distance go far enough?
Irlacher, Michael; Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Renner, … - 2021
This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient's choice to consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations of both patients and physicians. Introducing this...
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The local origins of business formation
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2023
What locations generate more business ideas, and where are ideas more likely to turn into businesses? Using comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and the formation of new employer startups from these ideas....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388423
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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: A survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315587
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Neighborhood choices, neighborhood effects and housing vouchers
Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - 2017
We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers … influence neighborhood choices and child outcomes. We use two new panel data sets with tract-level detail for Los Angeles county … living in a given tract on child test scores (which we call "child ability" throughout). We simulate optimal location choices …
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