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Exploring the causal relation between obesity and alcohol use, and educational outcomes

Vuik, Sabine; Devaux, Marion; Cecchini, Michele - 2019

Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk factors are known to affect health and wellbeing, but may also have an impact on educational outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess a potential causal relationship...

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Extensive versus intensive margin over the business cycle : new evidence for Germany and the United States

Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick - 2016

den USA. Frühere Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass die extensive Margin dominiert und, dass, zweitens, in beiden Ländern … der extensiven und der intensiven Margin in den USA im zeitlichen Verlauf relativ stabil ist, variiert deren relative … den USA. Allerdings hängt ihre tatsächliche quantitative Bedeutung in erheblichem Umfang von der Wahl des …

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Real wages and business cycle asymmetries : presented at CESifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003

Woitek, Ulrich - 2004

The cyclicality of real wages has important implications for the validity of competing business cycle theories. However, the empirical evidence on the aggregate level is inconclusive. Using a threshold vector autoregressive model for the US and Germany to condition the relationship between real...

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Estimating policy-corrected long-term and short-term tax elasticities for the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom

Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha; Ünal, Umut - 2021 - This version: 23 March 2021

We estimate the elasticities of the most important tax categories using a new quarterly database of discretionary tax measures for the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom over the period 1980Q1 to 2018Q2. Employing Romer and Romer's (2009) narrative approach, we construct a...

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