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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition...

Addison, John T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers’ compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

McDermott, Grant R.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...

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The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water

Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her household has poor access to water. For testing we use data...

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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis

Wagner, Alexander F.; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...

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Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments

von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin; van Soest, Arthur; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We combine data from a risk preference elicitation experiment conducted on a representative sample via the Internet with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of implementation mode and of subject pool selection. We find that the frequency of errors in the...

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A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population

Booij, Adam S.; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; van de … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability weighting function for different positive and negative monetary outcomes, using a representative sample of N = 1935 from the general public. The results confirm earlier findings in the...

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The Dynamics of Market Insurance, Insurable Assets, and Wealth Accumulation

Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We analyze dynamic interactions between market insurance, the stock of insurable assets and liquid wealth accumulation in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable is exposed to risk against which households can insure. Since the model does not have a closed form...

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