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Unravelling Secularization: An International Study
Neuman, Shoshana; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822906
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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 current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
brunello, giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
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 current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325756
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10009278192
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity – A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2013
of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify … populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while in the United States the … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701062
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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-23
J11; J15; Z12; Z13 </AbstractSection> Copyright Garcia-Muñoz and Neuman; licensee Springer. 2013
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … Europe it has mainly the function of a buffer and of a “balm for the soul”. There is an extensive literature on the ‘bridge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084585
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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652535
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Long-Run Effects of Childhood Shocks on Health in Late Adulthood: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Halmdienst, Nicole - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE we estimate direct and indirect effects of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger on health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607115
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Long-Run Effects of Childhood Shocks on Health in Late Adulthood: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Halmdienst, Nicole - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2013
In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE we estimate direct and indirect effects of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger on health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607116