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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290644
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Intergenerational Residence Patterns and Covid-19 Fatalities in the EU and the Us
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2020
We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828607
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
evidence of any income-based "trajectory inequality" in either cohort, after conditioning on abilities. Among all graduation … Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260027
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Who delays childbearing? The relationships between fertility, education and personality traits
Tavares, Lara Patrício - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288967
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Differential mortality in the UK
Attanasio, Orazio; Emmerson, Carl - 2001
rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292990
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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola - 2006
Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267568
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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2005
not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental family income, parental age at birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267651
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Welfare reforms and cild well-being in the US and UK
Waldfogel, Jane - 2008
This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income … data also point to divergence across the two countries. In the UK, low-income families affected by the reforms are spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273919
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Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk
Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Gervais, Martin - 2009
We document that home ownership of households with heads aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001{2005 housing boom. The 1980{2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275729
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Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk
Fisher, Jonas D. M. (contributor);  … - 2009
; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871276