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The extent to which marriage market conditions explain differences in marriage and employment decisions across blacks and whites and across men and women is considered in a dynamic, two-sided model of marriage. The quantity and quality of men and women in the marriage market evolve endogenously...
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find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs …. Furthermore I present evidence suggesting that intelligence and self-confidence affect business ownership through two different … channels: intelligence increases business survival while self-confidence increases business creation. Finally, once we control …
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The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....
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The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...
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Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...
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Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...
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Bereichen "Feuerwehr und Brandschutz" sowie "Gesundheit und Pflege" in den ländlichen Räumen Nordrhein-Westfalens. Beide … Gemeinden bei Problemen der Daseinsvorsorge in den Bereichen "Feuerwehr und Brandschutz" sowie "Gesundheit und Pflege …
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