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Are religions for sale? Evidence from the Swedish church revolt over same-sex marriage
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2017
Religious leaders sometimes condemn progressive social norms. In this paper, I revisit David Hume's hypothesis that secular states can "bribe" churches into adopting less strict religious doctrines. The hypothesis is difficult to test due to reverse causality: more liberal theologies may attract...
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey: A quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Hanife Deniz; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and food consumption patterns
McGranahan, Leslie; Schanzenbach, Diane W. - 2013
The Earned Income Tax Credit is unique among social programs in that benefits are not paid out evenly across the calendar year. We exploit this feature of the EITC to investigate how the credit influences the food expenditure patterns of eligible households. We find that eligible households...
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Long Term Health Effect of Earned Income Tax Credit
Song, Ze - 2019
Using decades of variation in the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) dataset, I examine the impact of exposure to EITC expansions in utero and during childhood on health outcomes in adulthood. In order to overcome the confounding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663133
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Smoking: Taxing health and social security
Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2006
While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …
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Wage and profit-led growth: The limits to Neo-Kaleckian models and a Kaldorian proposal
Pérez Caldentey, Esteban; Vernengo, Matías - 2013
We argue that a fundamental difference between Post-Keynesian approaches to economic growth lies in their treatment of investment. Kaleckian-Robinsonian models postulate an investment function dependent on the accelerator and profitability. Some of these models rely on the importance of...
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A semi-parametric approach to the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with continuous group variable and self-selection
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2019
the impact of obesity on wages (Cawley 2004), using body mass index (BMI) as the continuous group variable. The results … suggest that body weight does have a negative impact on wages for white women, but the impact decreases for higher BMI levels …. For white men, the impact is also negative and significant, but positive for low levels of BMI, which explains why they …
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Mental health policy in India: Seven sets of questions and some answers
Mirza, Arshad; Singh, Nirvikar - 2017
This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide at least partial answers to these questions, based on a meta-analysis of existing research. Given the complexity of the subject, this paper is meant to serve more as a framing...
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Universal preschool programs and long-term child outcomes: A systematic review
Dietrichson, Jens; Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Nielsen, … - 2018
What are the long-term effects of universal preschool programs on child outcomes? We review 26 studies using natural experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from third grade to adulthood. Studies comparing...
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A multi-sensory tutoring program for students at-risk of reading difficulties: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Bøg, Martin; Dietrichson, Jens; Aldenius, Anna - 2019
Although reading is a fundamental skill, many students leave school without being proficient readers. We examine a literacy program targeting students most at-risk of reading difficulties in kindergarten and first grade. The program includes multi-sensory learning methods, which focus on...
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