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The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...
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Increasing the credibility of the twin birth instrument
Farbmacher, Helmut; Guber, Raphael; Vikström, Johan - 2016
Twin births are an important instrumental variable for the endogenous fertility decision. However, in many economic settings, twins are not exogenous as dizygotic twinning is known to be correlated with maternal characteristics and fertility treatments. Following the medical literature, we...
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An IV Hazard Model of Loan Default with an Application to Subprime Mortgage Cohorts
Palmer, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper develops a control-function methodology accounting for endogenous or mismeasured regressors in hazard models. I provide sufficient identifying assumptions and regularity conditions for the estimator to be consistent and asymptotically normal. Applying my estimator to the subprime...
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Macroeconomic determinants of retirement timing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Song, Jae; Stolyarov, Dmitriy - 2013
retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …
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Retiree health insurance for public school employees : does it affect retirement?
Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013
to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189828
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Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? : evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.
Eibich, Peter; Lorenti, Angelo; Mosca, Irene - 2020
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and administrative data to compute measures for the feasibility of working from home among German employees....
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Job loss and retirement behavior of older men
Chan, Sewin; Stevens, Ann Huff - 1998
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the employment and retirement behavior of men aged …
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Employment and retirement following a late career job loss
Chan, Sewin; Stevens, Ann Huff - 1999
loss on these workers are potentially severe: their earnings capacity, savings, and retirement expectations are likely to … workers. This paper presents findings from an ongoing research project using the Health and Retirement Study that focuses on … the economic impacts of late career job loss on employment and retirement patterns, as well as on earnings and assets. …
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The health consequences of retirement
Insler, Michael A. - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 49 (2014) 1, pp. 195-233
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Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? : evidence from Europe and the U.S.
Eibich, Peter; Lorenti, Angelo; Mosca, Irene - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 76 (2022), pp. 1-16
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