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Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam War Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during the early stages of life on later-life health. This paper contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military...
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Obesity and Food away from Home : What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight?
Strupat, Christoph - 2019
Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to which the nutritional composition of food consumed away from home is behind this rise, and the links with socioeconomic status, is not yet well understood. This paper explores this...
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The Use of Financial Incentives to Prevent Undesirable Behaviors
de Walque, Damien - 2018
Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly … way it is often measured, it has also led to the misperception that financial globalization in emerging markets has been … growing in recent years. The authors characterize the evolution of financial globalization in emerging markets using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068213
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Criss-Crossing Globalization : Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2014
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services, or capital from poorer to richer countries. We first present a set of stylized facts. Using a measure that combines the sophistication of a country's exports with the average...
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Gross Capital Flows, Common Factors, and the Global Financial Cycle
Barrot, Luis-Diego - 2018
common factors exhibits a "globalization" stage up to 2007, during which they acquire growing importance, followed by a phase …
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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam, rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840241
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Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2020
The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843448
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Financial Globalization and Market Volatility : An Empirical Appraisal
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other … measures, the financial globalization index corrects for the heteroscedasticity of global volatility. This leads to a downward … adjustment of financial globalization trends for developed, emerging, and frontier markets. The paper also shows that financial …
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