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We suggest using information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. According to Eurostat, the officially published ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
60 (2014), No. 4, 948-966
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Vyacheslav Dombrovsky
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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the database. The long time horizon of our ...
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Journal of Economic Inequality
12 (2014), Iss. 3, S. 393-409
| Carsten Schröder, Yolanda Golan, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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We analyze the effect of the receipt of remittances on the education and health of children in Kyrgyzstan during a volatile period of their recent history, 2005–2009. The country experienced revolution in 2005 and the global financial crisis beginning in 2008. Both events impact human capital investment, and the changes vary by region of the country. We use fixed effects estimation and fixed effects, ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 770-785
| Antje Kröger, Kathryn H. Anderson
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We propose that a comprehensive understanding of age differences in affective responses to emotional situations requires the distinction of 2 components of affect dynamics: reactivity, the deviation from a person’s baseline, and recovery, the return to this baseline. The present study demonstrates the utility of this approach with a focus on age differences inresponses of negative affect and heart ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 3, S. 563-576
| Cornelia Wrzus, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Michaela Riediger
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We investigate how prenatal economic fluctuations affected birth weight in Argentina during the period from January 2000 to December 2005 and document its procyclicality. We find evidence that the birth weight of children born to low-educated (less than high school) mothers is sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations during both the first and third trimesters of pregnancy, while those of high-educated ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
96 (2014), 3, S. 550-562
| Carlos Bozzoli, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Vermarktlichung und Globalisierung haben den Profifußball und die Zusammensetzung von Mannschaften fundamental verändert. Vor dem Hintergrund der veränderten Rahmenbedingungen untersucht der Beitrag, in welchem Maße (a) der Marktwert einer Mannschaft, (b) ihre interne Ungleichheit, (c) die kulturelle Diversität eines Teams sowie (d) der Grad der Fluktuation im Team über den sportlichen Erfolg in nationalen ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
43 (2014), 3, S. 231-250
| Jürgen Gerhards, Michael Mutz, Gert G. Wagner
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The evaluation of market structures and the quantification of returns to scale in network industries usually are of high interest for researchers and policy makers. Regarding the debate on optimal market structures in German potable water supply, we use a cross-sectional sample of 364 German water utilities observed in 2006 to derive a nonparametric measure of scale elasticity for the water industry. ...
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Empirical Economics
47 (2014), 3, S. 1029-1053
| Michael Zschille
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Researchers in the US have consistently reported substantial - not just statistically significant - links between religious belief and practice, and improved health and longevity. In this paper we report evidence for Germany, using data from thelong-running, nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 1984). The SOEP dataset includes multiple measures of health, plus many "controls" ...
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Social Indicators Research
119 (2014), 3, S.1335-1361
| Bruce Headey, Gerhard Hoehne, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed in the period 1992-2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken inKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and of all academic papers published using these datasets. We argue that Central Asia is a fascinating region ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 819-835
| Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev, Antje Kröger, Alma Kudebayeva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner
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There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness (Headey et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci 107(42):17922–17926, ...
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Social Indicators Research
116 (2014), 3, S. 909-933
| Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner