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capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …
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capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the …
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between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male … new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country’s democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link …
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between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male … new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country's democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059119
Transitions to democracy are generally highly complex processes in terms of political engineering aimed at governance … seeks to generate a contribution to the debate generated on the processes of democratic transition. …
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Economic diversification has gained significant attention as a crucial factor for sustainable development worldwide. This paper addresses the risks associated with extreme specialisation and explores the potential benefits of economic diversification for Mongolia. By comparing Mongolia with its...
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towards democracy. Variation across post-communist countries in the degree of democracy twenty years after the start of … transition can be parsimoniously explained by two variables: the length of time the country spent under a communist regime and …
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The paper investigates the demographic and socioeconomic determinants of aggregate savings rate of Brazilian families in the recent past. The main results are consistent with the predictions of the theory of the cycle of life/permanent income, properly extended to incorporate institutional and...
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In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...
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Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a "non-qualified only" policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes of children of first-generation migrants, the paper compares the PISA results of...
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