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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292226
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907
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Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; von Hinke … - 2017
There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039281
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Is it the way you live or the job you have? Health effects of lifestyles and working conditions
Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2017
, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous … multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each health measure: an indicator of self-assessed health, an indicator of … physical health, an indicator of work-related mental health problems, using Danish data for 2000 and 2005. We find that while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739630
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Investment and Uncertainty: A Theory-Based Empirical Approach
Carlsson, Mikael - 2004
This paper provides empirical evidence on the dynamic effects of uncertainty on firm-level capital accumulation. A novelty in this paper is that the firm-level uncertainty indicator is motivated and derived from a theoretical model, the neoclassical investment model with time to build. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321549
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A Monte Carlo Study of a Factor Analytical Method for Fixed-Effects Dynamic Panel Models
Norkute, Milda - 2014
In a recent article Bai (Fixed-Effects Dynamic Panel Models, A Factor Analytical Method. Econometrica 81, 285-314, 2013a) proposes a new factor analytical method (FAM) for the estimation of fixed-effects dynamic panel data models, which has the unique and very useful property that it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208676
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A Factor Analytical Method to Interactive Effects Dynamic Panel Models with or without Unit Root
Westerlund, Joakim; Norkute, Milda - 2014
In a recent study, Bai (Fixed-Effects Dynamic Panel Models, A Factor Analytical Method. Econometrica 81, 285-314, 2013a) proposes a new factor analytic (FA) method to the estimation of dynamic panel data models, which has the unique and very useful property that it is completely bias-free....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208680
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The conquest of South American inflation
Sargent, Thomas; Williams, Noah; Zha, Tao - 2006
We infer determinants of Latin American hyperinflations and stabilizations by using the method of maximum likelihood to estimate a hidden Markov model that potentially assigns roles both to fundamentals in the form of government deficits that are financed by money creation and to destabilizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292362
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Effects of monetary policy shocks on UK regional activity: A constrained MFVAR approach
Mandalinci, Zeyyad - 2015
This paper examines the effects of monetary policy shocks on UK regional economic growth and dispersion in a novel Constrained Mixed Frequency Vector Autoregressive framework. Compared to a standard MFVAR, the model partially accounts for missing quarterly observations for regional growth by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380981
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Studying the short-run dynamics of inflation: Estimating a hybrid new-keynesian Phillips Curve for Argentina (1993-2007)
D'Amato, Laura; Garegnani, María Lorena - 2009
We estimate a 'Hybrid New-Keynesian Phillips Curve' for Argentina between 1993 and 2007. We extend the model to a small open economy, considering separately the influence of nominal devaluation and foreign inflation on domestic prices. For the whole sample, we find that forward and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325089