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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
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Modelling Entrepreneurship
Bosma, Niels; Wit, Gerrit de; Carree, Martin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
by both high entry and high exit rates. …
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Do Auctions and Forced Divestitures increase Competition?
Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Haan, Marco A.; Heijnen, Pim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Industrial Economics' (2014). Volume 62, issue 3, pages 467-502.<P> Where markets are insufficiently competitive, governments can intervene by auctioninglicenses to operate or by forcing divestitures. The Dutch government has...</p>
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for potential endogeneity of politician gender and the...
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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data from 1980-2000, we find that cohorts born after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases...
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Homevoters vs. Leasevoters: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
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Fly or Cry: Is Airport Noise Costly?
Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2009
Airport noise is costly. Airport location is typically associated with lower property prices. Airport expansion often sparks protests by local residents. In this paper, I provide new evidence on the costs of airport-related noise (and other disamenities of airports) for individuals. In contrast...
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Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Goette, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning...
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