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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...

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Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany

Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular, have been of prior concern to policy and to research. Using a rich panel data set this paper contributes to this literature by investigating factors determining the demand for...

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Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour

Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …

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Mafia and Public Spending: Evidence on the Fiscal Multiplier from a Quasi-experiment

Acconcia, Antonio; Corsetti, Giancarlo; Simonelli, Saverio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We estimate the multiplier relying on differences in spending in infrastructure across Italian provinces and an instrument identifying investment changes that are large and exogenous to local cyclical conditions. We derive our instrument from the Law mandating the interruption of public work on...

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Reading to young children: a head-start in life?

Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings...

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On the Equivalence of Location Choice Models: Conditional Logit, Nested Logit and Poisson

Brülhart, Marius; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

It is well understood that the two most popular empirical models of location choice - conditional logit and Poisson - return identical coefficient estimates when the regressors are not individual specific. We show that these two models differ starkly in terms of their implied predictions. The...

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Ageing, Migration and Labour Mobility

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper provides insights into the relationship between the substantial ageing of the European labour force, large migration movements, and individual labour mobility. First, qualitative predictions are derived using the theory of production with multiple inputs. Second, quantitative...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict...

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Modelling Work-Related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Elias, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper estimates the determinants of the number of work-related training courses, and their impact on expected wages growth, using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of a cohort of young men – from...

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