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Getting Life Expectancy Estimates Right for Pension Policy : Period Versus Cohort Approach

Ayuso, Mercedes - 2018

period and dynamic cohort mortality tables, estimates the differences in life expectancy between both tables using data from …

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A Theory of Social Impact Bonds

Tortorice, Daniel L. - 2020

Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...

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Trends in the Female Longevity Advantage of 19th-Century Birth Cohorts : Exploring the Role of Place and Fertility

Fletcher, Jason; Topping, Michael; Joo, Won-tak - 2023

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of …

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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim - 2014

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold …-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...

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Modelling Heaped Duration Data : An Application to Neonatal Mortality

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2014

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to the substantial heaping present in the data. The main objective … of this paper is to provide a set of sufficient conditions for identification and consistent estimation of the baseline …

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Cohort at Risk : Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement

Jürges, Hendrik - 2017

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal channels. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of...

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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Biørn, Erik - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...

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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these...

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