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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this paper assesses the in uence of personality traits on the timing of motherhood and investigates whether, and in what way, personality traits can explain the differences in maternity timing between more and less educated women. We estimate a...
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average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of …
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Empirical evidence on the effects of age on mental health is diverse. Therefore, the paper aims to analyze the … association between age and the prevalence of symptoms of depression. Based on SHARE, depressive symptoms of 28,069 persons from … applied to analyze the effect of age on depressive symptoms under control of socio-economic characteristics and health. The …
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comparison income on life satisfaction with all age groups, and many controls. However when we split the West German sample by … age we find a positive significant effect of comparison income in the under 45s, and the usual negative effect only in the … a quadratic control for age can obscure major differences in the effects of relative income. …
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that identify the influence of age and birth year on household saving rates. Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the …
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take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test …
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Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty …
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who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …
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This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the effect of delaying the first child on the transition to the second birth differs both among...
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unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. By using a special test for an … inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence … findings suggest that more definitive evidence is needed before the existence of international unionization-age patterns can be …
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