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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...

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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income

O’Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...

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Erfolgreich Altern : Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit haben großen Einfluss

Brandt, Martina; Deindl, Christian; Hank, Karsten - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 11-14

-life health ; childhood conditions ; social inequality ; SHARELIFE …

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Menschen mit hohem Einkommen leben länger

Kroh, Martin; Neiss, Hannes; Kroll, Lars; Lampert, Thomas - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 38, pp. 3-15

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), indicates that the lower life expectancy of women in low-income households is associated with … statistical correlation between income and life expectancy presents a challenge to those responsible for health policy in the … those from affluent households, reform of occupational safety standards and improvements in the promotion of health in the …

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. -- health inequality …

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Grüner Strom : Verbraucher sind bereit, für Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien zu zahlen

Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 2-9

Für den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland ist neben den politisch gesetzten Rahmenbedingungen auch die Akzeptanz der Verbraucher entscheidend. Eine aktuelle Studie der DIW econ untersucht das Nachfrageverhalten ökologisch orientierter Stromkunden. Auf Basis einer Befragung wurde...

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Wenig Chancengleichheit in Deutschland : Familienhintergrund prägt eigenen ökonomischen Erfolg

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 4, pp. 3-9

Die Sicherstellung von gleichen Lebenschancen ist ein Ziel, das seit vielen Jahren alle westlich geprägten demokratisch verfassten Gesellschaften teilen. Obwohl alle Bürger formal über gleiche Rechte verfügen, sind auch in Deutschland die Chancen für individuelle Lebensverläufe je nach...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...

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Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

Justino, Patricia; Shemyakina, Olga N. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-28

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and supply fewer hours when they do. The results are robust to different measures of...

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