The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices Matter?
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 8912
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 8912
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15840
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6480
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This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political process. We document that the introduction of public health care systems had a significant immediate effect on the dynamics of infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings suggest that a reduction in infant mortality or crude death rates exhibited a positive effect on growth in income per capita and increased population growth.
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 14128
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10532
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 5901
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In: IZA world of labor: evidence-based policy making
In: Journal of peace research, S. 002234332211456
ISSN: 1460-3578
Do intense religious experiences increase or decrease terrorism? We argue that fasting during the month of Ramadan offers an ideal setting for studying this question empirically. Reasons are twofold: first, daily fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan is considered mandatory for most Muslims. Second, the Islamic Hijri calendar is not synchronized with the solar cycle. Therefore, the daily fasting duration during Ramadan is exogenous once we control for latitude and the seasonality of Ramadan, which we can do by using district and country-year fixed effects. Focusing on predominantly Muslim countries, we document three main findings: first, longer and more intense Ramadan fasting has a robust negative effect on the likelihood of local terrorist events and terror deaths over the next year. Second, this negative effect is particularly pronounced for operationally more difficult attack types, which are more dependent on public support for terrorism. Third, using survey data, we show that longer and more intense Ramadan fasting lowers the share of respondents who consider religiously motivated violence to be justified. These findings imply that intense religious experiences may not be a breeding ground for terrorism. Quite the opposite, they can decrease public support for terrorism and, consequently, terrorist attacks.
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 8341
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 7855
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 7313
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13257
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In: International journal of human resource management, Band 27, Heft 8, S. 803-831
ISSN: 1466-4399
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12039
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