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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
Im Jahr 2004 legte jeder Einwohner in Deutschland - ohne Flugreisen - durchschnittlich 12 740 km zurück, davon 10 800 km im Auto, 1 100 km in Bus und Bahn, 370 km auf dem Fahrrad und 470 km zu Fuß. An der Wegstrecke gemessen dominiert also das Auto den Personenverkehr. Auf die Zahl der Wege...
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This paper updates analyses of the relationship between fluctuations of the business cycle and the number of traffic fatalities published in 2015 by the International Transport Forum. Since then, the global recession that started in 2008 has ended and economic growth has returned to most...
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Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are … male and female mortality rates determined by different socioeconomic factors and in different shapes? We use aggregated …
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Gender inequalities in longevity/mortality are a major area of research since the 1970s. Despite substantial insights … on the question, to which extent socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality for important causes of … aggregated mortality data from Austria both at the community and the district level covering the time period 1969 - 2004. By …
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I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in …- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both …
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Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of 'women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning...
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very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality conditional on the mode of OAC. Three forms of publicly provided OAC are … mortality among cohabitants with home-help services, while it is higher among cohabitants with special accommodation. Our …
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-to-death (TTD) effects on Long Term Care. We also account for the problem that mortality, and therefore TTD, are themselves …
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