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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2012
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332393
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Scylla and Charybdis: explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928 - December 1936
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008
The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a limited set of factors commonly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264339
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Europe's great depression: Coordination failure after the first World War
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2010
In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274942
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286261
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Europe's great depression : coordination failure after the first World War
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2010
In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could … policies could be effective. -- Great Depression ; Europe ; coordination failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696770
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010 - This version: July 16, 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908502
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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841933
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Scylla and Charybdis. : explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928 - December 1936
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003669781
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Scylla and Charybdis : explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928 - December 1936
Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003674389
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Scylla and Charybdis. : the European economy and Poland's adherence to gold, 1928 - 1936
Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003576617