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Gender, Networks and Mexico-US Migration

Davis, Benjamin; Winters, Paul - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002

In this paper, we examine whether the causes and patterns of Mexican rural female migration differ significantly from rural male migration. A number of hypotheses are discussed to explain why female migration may differ from male migration, with a particular emphasis on the role of migrant...

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Educational differences in all-cause mortality by marital status

Kohler, Iliana V.; Martikainen, Pekka; Smith, Kirsten P.; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 60, pp. 2011-2042

Using life table measures, we compare educational differentials in all-cause mortality at ages 40 to 70 in Bulgaria to those in Finland and the United States. Specifically, we assess whether the relationship between education and mortality is modified by marital status. Although high education...

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Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality

Waldron, Ingrid; McCloskey, Christopher; Earle, Inga - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 17, pp. 415-454

This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor...

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Social Exclusion and Children: A European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - 2002

exclusion of children are considered. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast …

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Modelling real GDP per capita in the USA: cointegration test

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg; Dolinskaya, Svetlana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A two-component model for the evolution of real GDP per capita in the USA is presented and tested. The first component … between the growth rate of real GDP per capita and the number of 9-year-olds in the USA is tested for cointegration. For … cointegrating relation. Econometrically, the tests for cointegration show that the deviations of real economic growth in the USA …

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Consumer Confidence and Elections

Hardouvelis, Gikas A; Thomakos, Dimitrios D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate the behavior of consumer confidence around national elections in the EU-15 countries during 1985:1-2007:3. Consumer confidence increases before the date of elections and falls subsequently by almost the same amount. It is able to predict the strength of the performance of the...

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