Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account house...

Usual microeconometric studies of the French fertility su¤er from the lack of data on religion. Indeed, the French laws make it very di¢ cult to collect data on the individual’s religious a¢ liation. However, recent studies tend to validate the important role played by culture and especially religion in fertility behaviors. This paper proposes a microeconometric investigation of the French fert...

Real-world estimates of seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) are important for early detection of vaccine failure. We developed a method for evaluating real-time in-season vaccine effectiveness (IVE) and overall seasonal VE. In a retrospective, register-based, cohort study including all two million individuals in Stockholm County, Sweden, during the influenza seasons from 2011/12 to 20...

The structure and function of conserved motifs constituting the apex of Stem I in T-box mRNA leaders are investigated. We point out that this apex shares striking similarities with the L1 stalk (helices 76-78) of the ribosome. A sequence and structure analysis of both elements shows that, similarly to the head of the L1 stalk, the function of the apex of Stem I lies in the docking of tRNA throu...

In this paper we use doubly stochastic processes (or Cox processes) in order to model the random evolution of mortality of an individual. These processes have been widely used in the credit risk literature in modelling default arrival, and in this context have proved to be quite flexible, especially when the intensity process is of the affine class. We investigate the applicability of time-homo...

We assess the impact of continued low fertility in China, versus a rebound in fertility due to the relaxation of the one child policy, on demographic and macroeconomic outcomes in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. We build a rich model of household dynamics with young and elderly dependents, human capital investment, public health insurance, pensions, private savings, and intrafamily tra...

Rotationally mediated focused inelastic resonances ~RMFIR’s! in the angular distributions of D2 scattered from Cu~001! are observed. The FIR effect involves a phonon-assisted focusing of an incident beam of arbitrary energy and direction into a final channel of one single well-defined energy and direction. Surprisingly for an incident energy Ei527 meV the RMFIR conditions for the scattered beam...

A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring’s Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies...

Micro and Macro Determinants of Health: Older Immigrants in Europe We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using Multilevel Analysis we can best captu...

Advanced economies undergo three transitions during their development: 1. They transition from a rural to an urban economy. 2. They transition from low income growth to high income growth. 3. Their demographics transition from initially high fertility and mortality rates to low modern levels. The timings of these transitions are correlated in the historical development of most advanced economie...