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We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between...
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We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208619
Recent research claims that the major part of the observed reduction in suicide rates during the 1990's can be … reinvestigate the issue. After controlling for other covariates, observed as well as unobserved, that might affect the suicide rate …, we find, overall, no statistically significant effects from antidepressants on the suicide rate; when we do get …
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incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …
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The present article links business takeovers to the literature on serial autocorrelation of growth rates. The aim of …
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-curve empirical framework to investigate how financial development, globalisation and technology affect income inequality. Our … exert opposite effects in different countries. Globalisation is associated to increasing inequality in most advanced … economies are mixed, technology and financial development lead to increasing inequality for most emerging economies. Hence …
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This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to smaller countries that were historically backward...
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What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
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A vibrant literature has emerged in recent years to explore the influences of human evolution and the genetic composition of populations on the comparative economic performance of societies, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration...
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In this paper, I first show that Swedish job polarization is - contrary to common belief - a long-run phenomenon: the share of middle-wage jobs has declined relative to the highest- and lowest-paid jobs since at least the 1950s. Based on previous results for the US, I then demonstrate that the...
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