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Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices
Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Do drivers reduce speeds when gasoline prices are high? Previous research investigating this energy conservation hypothesis produced mixed results. We take a fresh look at the data and estimate a significant negative relationship between speeding and gasoline prices. This presents a new...
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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
den Berg, Gerard J. van; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschenes, Olivier; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing … technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … mean temperature exceeding 80° F has declined by about 70%. Almost the entire decline occurred after 1960. There are about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210813
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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002
Bruckner, Tim A.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Smith, Kirk R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … indicate that ambient temperature during gestation – independent of birth month – modifies the relation between cold and adult …
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