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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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Taxing Sweets: Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?
Miao, Zhen; Beghin, John C.; Jensen, Helen H. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering various policies, including taxes, to change consumers’ high-calorie consumption habits. We investigate two tax policies aimed at reducing added sweetener consumption. Both a consumption tax on sweet goods and a...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Associations of Food Stamp Participation with Obesity and Dietary Quality among Low-income Children
Leung, Cindy; Blumenthal, Susan; Hoffnagle, Elena; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2013
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Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Schlenker, Wolfram; Neidell, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by estimating the change in bottled water purchases in response to drinking water violations. Using data from a national grocery chain matched with water quality violations, we find an increase in bottled water...
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Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso
McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; Kazianga, Harounan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change over time and differences across villages...
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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach
Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...
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Preventives Versus Treatments
Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Preventives are sold ex ante, before disease status is realized, while treatments are sold ex post. Even if the mean of the ex ante distribution of consumer values is the same as that ex post, the shape of the distributions may differ, generating a difference between the surplus each product can...
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