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"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health

Winter, Joachim; Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Much has been said about the stylized fact that the economically successful are not only wealthier but also healthier than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there remains a vivid debate about its source. In this paper, we...

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The Consumption-Tightness Puzzle

Ravn, Morten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper introduces a labor force participation choice into a labor market matching model embedded in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with production and savings. The participation choice is modelled as a tradeoff between forgoing the expected benefits of being search active...

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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor force participation decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the...

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The Timing of Births: Is the Health of Infants Counter-Cyclical?

Dehejia, Rajeev; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to selection of mothers choosing to give birth or due to behavioral changes. We study the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's conception and parental...

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Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

Pollak, Robert A.; Compton, Janice - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

during work hours but also an insurance aspect of proximity (e.g., a mother or mother-in-law who can provide irregular or …

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How Does Retiree Health Insurance Influence Public Sector Employee Saving?

Mitchell, Olivia; Clark, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance benefits crowd-out household wealth … accumulation. Nevertheless, there is little research on the impacts of retiree health insurance on wealth accruals, so this paper …-provided retiree health insurance may influence net household wealth among public sector employees, where retiree healthcare benefits …

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Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources

Weinzierl, Matthew C; Gelber, Alexander M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the...

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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci H.; Raschke, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The implications range from earnings inequality to intergenerational mobility. Using German data from various...

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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

Dehejia, Rajeev; DeLeire, Thomas; Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper examines whether participation in religious or other social organizations can help offset the negative effects of growing up in a disadvantaged environment. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we collect measures of disadvantage as well as parental involvement with...

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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