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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity
Eid, Jean; Overman, Henry G; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity. Using data that tracks individuals over time, we find no … evidence that urban sprawl causes obesity. We show that previous findings of a positive relationship most likely reflect a … neighbourhoods. Our results indicate that current interest in changing the built environment to counter the rise in obesity is …
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Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper studies the effects of labour income taxation on growth in an OLG model where both formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements. We compare them with the effects obtained in a model where only formal schooling matters for skill formation....
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Taxation, Aggregates and the Household
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labour supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labour force participation of married females across skill...
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Van Der Klaauw, Wilbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136476
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 19 OECD countries. We quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes, as well as male and female wages, to the international differences...
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Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications and merits of this proposition. Relative to the current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax rate on...
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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income
Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to...
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Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket
Gandal, Neil; Shabelansky, Anastasia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
correlated with obesity. Our main result is that, even after controlling for income levels and other factors, we find that high … 'price-sensitivity' for food products is associated with high obesity rates. We find that a woman who stated that prices were … that price was 'very important.' This suggests that the price effect is not trivial and obesity is a problem that is not …
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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Personal Pensions with Risk sharing: Affordable, Adequate and Stable Private Pensions in Europe
Bovenberg, A Lans; Nijman, Theo E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Private pension provision faces the challenging task of providing stable income streams during retirement. The challenge has increased markedly in the last decades due to volatile financial markets, falling interest rates and the withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of...
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