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The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance : Evidence from Canada

Gruber, Jonathan - 1993

provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …

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A Tax-Based Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution

Gruber, Jonathan - 2006

One of the most important behavioral parameters in macroeconomics is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS …

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Disability Insurance Benefits and Labor Supply

Gruber, Jonathan - 1996

therefore the elasticity of labor force participation with respect to benefits generosity. Unfortunately, this parameter has … elasticity of labor force non-participation with respect to DI benefits of 0.25 to 0.32. Despite this large labor supply response …

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Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical prediction that the current consumption of addictive goods should respond to future prices, and the key normative prediction that the optimal government regulation of addictive...

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Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

Coile, Courtney - 1999

This paper focuses on Social Security benefit claiming behavior, a take-up decision that has been ignored in the previous literature. Using financial calculations and simulations based on an expected utility maximization model, we show that delaying benefit claim for a period of time after...

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Cheaper By the Dozen : Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

Dynarski, Susan - 2009

The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for … private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined … an elasticity of Catholic school attendance with respect to tuition costs of -0.19. Our subgroup results suggest that a …

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Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout

Gerber, Alan - 2008

Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity ("Blue laws") to measure the...

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Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity?

Gruber, Jonathan - 2005

The strong negative correlation over time between smoking rates and obesity have led some to suggest that reduced smoking is increasing weight gain in the U.S.. This conclusion is supported by the findings of Chou et al. (2004), who conclude that higher cigarette prices lead to increased body...

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Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes : Is Religion Good for You?

Gruber, Jonathan - 2005

Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but there is relatively little study by economists of the implications of religiosity for economic outcomes. This likely reflects the enormous difficulty inherent in separating the causal effects of religiosity from other factors...

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Pay or Pray? The Impact of Charitable Subsidies on Religious Attendance

Gruber, Jonathan - 2004

subsidies to charitable giving lead to more religious giving, but less religious attendance, with an implied elasticity of …

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