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Decisions to divorce could be affected by a number of characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce (e.g. strong social control) or increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g. through access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such...
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Decisions to divorce could be affected by a number of characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce (e.g. strong social control) or increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g. through access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352590
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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traditional measures, based on subgroups income means, to the approach related to inequality decomposition, and showing how … inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of … overlapping component represents a key issue in gender gap analysis. An analysis of the income distribution of the Italian …
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traditional measures, based on subgroups income means, to the approach related to inequality decomposition, and showing how … inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of … overlapping component represents a key issue in gender gap analysis. An analysis of the income distribution of the Italian …
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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...
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, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … suggests that income depreciation, limited access to medical services, and an increase in alcohol consumption are responsible … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality …
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to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect … - women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths. …
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We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we ….3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …
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