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in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …
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insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … with food expenditures and negatively associated with needs. The study goes on to examine reports of food hardships at low … very levels of food expenditures, where we conjecture that most people should experience food problems. When expenditures …
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Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …
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differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of "acute illness" and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub- Saharan Africa....
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...
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Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...
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This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals …
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of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any … sensitive, and conclude with a tentative evaluation of the welfare benefits of progressive taxation in tournament economies. …
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