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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … 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 …

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Rainy Day Politics - An Instrumental Variables Approach to the Effect of Parties on Political Outcomes

Lind, Jo Thori - CESifo - 2014

Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of...

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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions

Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2012

This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini’s claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...

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Rainy Day Politics -- An Instrumental Variables Approach to the Effect of Parties on Political Outcomes

Lind, Jo Thori - 2014

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From Late to MTE : Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2016

This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...

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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - CESifo - 2014

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

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Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

Loureiro, Maria L.; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2009

We use instrumental variable methods to investigate whether the impact of parental smoking habits on their children’s smoking decisions is a causal one. We find evidence of same-sex role models in two-parent households: mothers play a crucial role in determining their daughters’ smoking...

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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a ‘fair cause’ or ‘justified motive’ in...

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