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Great Expectations : The Determinants of Female University Enrollment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra - 2011
17-21 age group drawn from EU-Silc, available for the years 2004-2008. From the same survey we construct context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127634
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316142
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317184
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Temperature, human health, and adaptation : a review of the empirical literature
Deschênes, Olivier - In: Energy economics 46 (2014), pp. 606-619
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Clean energy adoption and maternal health : evidence from China
Wang, Yangjie; Chen, Xiaohong; Ren, Shenggang - In: Energy economics 84 (2019), pp. 1-12
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Haze, health, and income : an integrated model for willingness to pay for haze mitigation in Shanghai, China
Ouyang, Xiaoling; Zhuang, Wuxu; Sun, Chuanwang - In: Energy economics 84 (2019), pp. 1-14
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Should We Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009
, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763911
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Does Insurance Expansion Alter Health Inequality and Mobility? Evidence from the Mexican Seguro Popular
Costa-Font, Joan - 2018
The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928126
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Do Working Hours Affect Health? Evidence from Statutory Workweek Regulations in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018
This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours … on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913278