-step estimation procedure. At the first step, we detrend the time series by incorporating time basis selected by the group Lasso …

natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben … Auswirkungen der Reformen auf die Verweildauer am Arbeitsmarkt. Dabei werden verschiedene vorausschauende Anreizmaße in die … estimation methods for panel data and for duration analyses are applied to administrative microdata and survey microdata. In line …

of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air ... …

Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …

given week and exposure to particulate matter (PM10) at the place of residence, controlling for weather, individual effects …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

Toronto, Ontario; we also modeled a similar building under the weather conditions of Orlando, Florida. An aggregated …

Airport); Alhassane Diallo (Meteorological Engineer, Burkina Faso Weather Service).The following three individuals were partly … (International Relations, Niger Weather Service); Mamoutou Kouressy (Institute of Rural Economics, Niger Department of Agriculture …); and Francis Dide (Benin Weather Service).I am confident that the participation of the above individuals in the Conference …