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The Influence of Health on Labor Productivity: An Analysis of European Conscription Data

Knapp, David - 2007

Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … adult height over aperiod of 150 years by distributing the measured adult height over the age distribution of the male … population. This calculation creates a measure of the age-distributed height of the laborforce, which then permits an analysis …

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Das Grossherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin im Ersten Weltkrieg : von der Friedens- zur Kriegswirtschaft

Strahl, Antje - 2015

Der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges traf Mecklenburg-Schwerin völlig unvorbereitet. Die Wirtschaft musste kriegsbedingt umgestellt, die Landesverwaltung im Spannungsfeld zwischen ständischen Privilegien und kriegswichtigen administrativen Änderungen ausgebaut werden. Das Buch geht der Frage...

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Effectiveness of climate policies : empirical methods and evidence

Dieler, Julian - 2016

This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation

Reinkowski, Janina - 2013

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

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Wohlstand und Gesundheit : neuere empirische Resultate und theoretische Erklärungsversuche

Hupfeld, Stefan - 2004

Diese Arbeit umfasst eine Darstellung des Grossman-Modells und der Akkumulation von Gesundheitskapital. Es werden ältere empirische Untersuchungen (Wagstaff) vorgestellt und aus methodischer Sicht kritisiert, verbesserte ökonometrische Methoden vorgeschlagen und deren Anwendung in aktuellen...

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Accrual Noise Ratio as a Measure of Accrual Reliability

Njoroge, Kenneth - 2009

I develop an empirical model that estimates a firm-specific accrual noise ratio (ANR), an operational and statistically grounded measure of accrual reliability, and test the measure's construct validity. The model allows accrual reliability to vary across firms, which is particularly important...

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Estimation and Inference in Special Nonparametric Models with Applications to Topics in Development Economics ; Schätzung und Inferenz in speziellen nichtparametrischen Modellen mi...

Wiesenfarth, Manuel - 2013

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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS

Reinhold, Steffen - 2008

In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...

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Essays on pensions, retirement and tax evasion

Hagen, Johannes - 2016

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