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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Leigh, Andrew - 2022

Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...

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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010

In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...

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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

Banks, James W. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...

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Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England

Banks, James W. - 2010

We find disease incidence and prevalence are both higher among Americans in age groups 55-64 and 70-80 indicating that Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease onset compared to the English. In contrast, age specific mortality...

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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US

Marx, Ive - 2012

This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...

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Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States

Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...

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