IZA DP No. 6296
Iris Kesternich, Bettina Siflinger, James P. Smith, Joachim K. Winter:
The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood events are important predictors for labor market and health outcomes in adult life, but studies that quantify these effects in large samples that cover entire diverse populations are still rare. We will analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of the Survey on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in 2009. This survey provides detailed data on events in childhood including those during the war as well as several measures of exposure to war shocks such as experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas, and hunger periods for over 20,000 individuals in 13 European countries. We find that exposure to the war itself, and even more importantly to individual-level shocks caused by the war such as hunger periods, significantly predict old-age outcomes at older ages.
http://ftp.iza.org/dp6296.pdf
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
New NBER Working Paper: Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide
Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide
Gary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick
NBER Working Paper No. 17778
January 2012
ABSTRACT
All economists should be conversant with “what happened?” during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. We select and summarize 16 documents, including academic papers and reports from regulatory and international agencies. This reading list covers the key facts and mechanisms in the build-up of risk, the panics in short-term-debt markets, the policy reactions, and the real effects of the financial crisis.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Widening Participation in Higher Education
New IZA working paper on this topic:
Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
Authors: Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman, Anna Vignoles
Abstract:
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is unique in being able to follow two cohorts of students in England – those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 – from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest that while there remain large raw gaps in HE participation (and participation at high-status universities) by socio-economic status, these differences are substantially reduced once controls for prior attainment are included. Moreover, these findings hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the point of entry into HE. These findings highlight the need for earlier policy intervention to raise HE participation rates amongst disadvantaged youth.
http://ftp.iza.org/dp4991.pdf
Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
Authors: Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman, Anna Vignoles
Abstract:
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It is unique in being able to follow two cohorts of students in England – those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 – from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest that while there remain large raw gaps in HE participation (and participation at high-status universities) by socio-economic status, these differences are substantially reduced once controls for prior attainment are included. Moreover, these findings hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the point of entry into HE. These findings highlight the need for earlier policy intervention to raise HE participation rates amongst disadvantaged youth.
http://ftp.iza.org/dp4991.pdf
Friday, August 21, 2009
David Madden - Working Paper
David Madden
http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/wp09.10.pdf
Abstract: The distributional characteristic is a measure which can be used
in many applications in social cost-benefit analysis. In the application
here, the distributional characteristics of a number of broad aggregates of
goods are calculated for Ireland. These calculations can aid in assessing
the distributional implications of price and tax changes.
Keywords: Distributional Characteristic, welfare weight, tax reform.
JEL Codes: D12, I18, I32.
Corresponding Author: David Madden,
School of Economics,
University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4,
Ireland.
http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/wp09.10.pdf
Abstract: The distributional characteristic is a measure which can be used
in many applications in social cost-benefit analysis. In the application
here, the distributional characteristics of a number of broad aggregates of
goods are calculated for Ireland. These calculations can aid in assessing
the distributional implications of price and tax changes.
Keywords: Distributional Characteristic, welfare weight, tax reform.
JEL Codes: D12, I18, I32.
Corresponding Author: David Madden,
School of Economics,
University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4,
Ireland.
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