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There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have … inequality in the municipality of residence, measured by the Gini coefficient, affected mortality in men and women aged 30-89 in … about the existence of harmful health effects of income inequality, and especially in a Nordic context. …
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, it is estimated how the proportions who are divorced or never-married in the municipality affect all-cause mortality, net …, and provide a rare opportunity to enter municipality fixed-effects, capturing the time-invariant unobserved factors at … such municipality fixed-effects are markedly different, but these also shed doubt on the notion that a high proportion not …
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of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to …
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We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …, is insufficient to explain the secular decline of population growth. For that interaction of mortality and income growth …
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Information from the Survey of Italian Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is not normally used as a basis for regional … results confirm the traditional scenario: northern and central regions show greater average values for both income and wealth … equivalent income and a distributional index, the gap between southern regions and northern and central ones grows even larger …
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Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program led to substantial...
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Annual, before-tax income is the most common official statistic used to measure economic well-being and therefore … underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income … income and age groups, and somewhat different answers about trends in resources over time. More importantly, by explicitly …
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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...
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This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...
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the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …
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