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Scarring and selection effects of epidemic malaria on human capital
Rawlings, Samantha - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750160
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The effect of prospective payment on admission and treatment policy : evidence from inpatient rehabilitation facilities
Sood, Neeraj; Huckfeldt, Peter J.; Grabowski, David C.; … - In: Journal of health economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 965-979
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210715
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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On the Identification of the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Lechene, Valerie; Adda, Jerome - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
selection effect and obtain consistent estimates of the effect of smoking on mortality. We implement our method on Swedish data …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … years of life gained than previously estimated. We also empirically show that selection into smoking has increased over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090696
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On the identification of the effect of smoking on mortality
Adda, Jerome; Lechene, Valérie - Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP) - 2004
selection effect and obtain consistent estimates of the effect of smoking on mortality. We implement our method on Swedish data …. We show that there is selection into smoking, and considerable dispersion around the average effect, so that health … years of life gained than previously estimated. We also empirically show that selection into smoking has increased over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037569
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Living Forever: Entrepreneurial Overconfidence at Older Ages
Groenen, Patrick; Koellinger, Philipp; Thurik, Roy; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013
Overconfidence has been proposed as an explanation for excess market entry by entrepreneurs and low returns in entrepreneurial activities. However, establishing that entrepreneurs are more overconfident than non-entrepreneurs requires the use of representative population samples; in addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067462
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A unified model of cohort mortality for economic analysis
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Moreau, Flavien - 2021
We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model sheds light on the dynamics behind many phenomena...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518293
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper tests the effects of guest work on Indian applicants to a … information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984655
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants
Bertoli, Simone; Stillman, Steven - 2019
Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005869
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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