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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

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New Rates from New Weights

Bayoumi, Tamim; Jayanthi, Sarma; Lee, Jaewoo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper describes the result and the methodology of updating the IMF's nominal and real effective exchange rate weights on the basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF's current effective exchange rate calculation, which uses weights...

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The Log of Gravity

Santos Silva, J.M.C; Tenreyro, Silvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

least squares as elasticities can be highly misleading in the presence of heteroskedasticity. This paper explains why this …

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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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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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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labour force participation of females...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs’ diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms across six countries (Brazil, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States). By this measure,...

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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no...

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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...

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What Do CEOs Do?

Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea - sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up - is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues. We follow 94 CEOs of...

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