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Altruism, Macroeconomic Aggregates and the Cyclical Behavior of Fertility : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data
Abo-Zaid, Salem M. - 2015
rate, female life expectancy, marriage rate and divorce rate. I then show that these findings can, to a large extent, be … explained by an overlapping generations model with altruism, and that abstracting from altruism delivers results that are at …
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Shopping externalities and self-fulfilling unemployment fluctuations
Kaplan, Greg; Menzio, Guido - 2013
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Shopping externalities and self-fulfilling unemployment fluctuations
Kaplan, Greg; Menzio, Guido - In: Journal of political economy 124 (2016) 3, pp. 771-825
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Health and health behaviors during the great recession : a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - In: Review of Economics of the Household 16 (2018) 4, pp. 1017-1026
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Health, welfare and unemployment during the Depression
Webster, Charles - 1985
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Is Marriage Protecting Your Health in Recession Times?
Gil, Joan - 2016
This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the protective effects of marriage on individuals' health by … of divorce and legal separation (marital dissolution) on mental health and binge drinking in two different points in time … these health outcomes implied by the economic recession using difference-in-difference (DiD) regression methods, upon …
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A U.S. analysis of the macro- and micro-economics of family formation : marrying in the great recession and prior post-industrial recessions ; conference paper
Espinoza, C. Soledad - 2014
With restricted-use data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I conduct an analysis of the macro- and micro-economic determinants of marrying. Based on observations across a broad segment of calendar years (from 1978 to 2010), I examine the measures of the national unemployment rate for males, national...
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The business cycle and health behaviors
Xu, Xin; Kaestner, Robert - 2010
"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. In this paper, we take a structural approach to investigate the effects of … wages and working hours on health behaviors of low-educated persons using variation in wages and hours caused by changes in …
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For better, for worse : intrahousehold risk-sharing over the business cycle
Shore, Stephen H. - In: The review of economics and statistics 92 (2010) 3, pp. 536-548
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