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Work ‘til You Drop: Short- and Longer-Term Health Effects of Retirement in Europe

Sahlgren, Gabriel H. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

evidence of the health effects of retirement.In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and the … effect of spending longer time in retirement. Using spouses’ characteristics as instruments, while taking precautions to … ensure validity, we find a robust, negative impact of being retired and spending longer time in retirement on selfassessed …

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On the Behavioral and Rational Foundation of Economic Theory

Simon, Herbert - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983

Existing uncertainties about the correct explanations for economic growth and business cycles cannot be settled by aggregative analysis within the neoclassical framework. Current disputes in theory rest largely on ad hoc, casually empirical, assumptions about departures from perfect rationality...

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Are Married Spouses Insured by their Partners’ Social Insurance?

Olsson, Martin; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partner’s benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner’s benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply...

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption.

Hauk, E.; Saez-Marti, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption.

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption

Hauk, Esther; Sáez-Martí, María - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

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Peers and Culture

Sáez-Martí, María; Sjögren, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We analyze the evolution of cultural traits when parents purposefully invest resources in order to socialize their children to the cultural traits that maximize child lifetime utility. We assume that children are not passive in their adoption of traits from peers. Instead they are guided by an...

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Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution

Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

We study sex trafficking in a marriage market model of prostitution. When traffickers can coerce women to sell sex, trafficked prostitutes constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated market for sex. We ask if regulation can eradicate trafficking and restore the equilibrium that...

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Effects of Tax Reform on the Demand for Owner-Occupied Housing: A Micro Simulation Approach

Brownstone, David; Englund, Peter; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984

The paper analyzes the effects on the demand for owner-occupied housing that are likely to result from the Swedish 1983-85 tax reform. This is done by means of a micro-simulation model which takes into account the dichotomous nature of the demand for housing: the consumers choose the mode of...

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Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) – A Pilot Study

Klevmarken, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982

Economic analysis of household micro behavior, data collection for a longitudinal data base and development of statistical methods for collection and analysis of micro data are the three general purposes of the HUS-project. A pilot study was carried out in 1981/82. It was designed to compare...

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Theory Construction and Economic Measurement at Different Levels of Aggregation: Parallel Theories and Data on Families and Firms

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985

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