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Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828-843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4 to 6 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After...
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We estimate the effect of granting access to driver licenses to undocumented immigrants on their offspring's access to early childhood education (ECE). Using individual-level data from the ACS, we find that granting driving privileges to undocumented immigrants leads to a 6% increase in ECE...
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consumer surplus bounds. In scanner data we find smaller panel elasticities than cross-section and that soda price increases …
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The dramatic increase in gasoline prices from close to $1 in 1999 to $4 at their peak in 2008 made it much more … expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …
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functions for the period from 1975 through 2003. My estimates suggest that changes in price can explain a good deal of the … percent increase in the real price of cigarettes since 1997 due to the Medicaid Master Settlement Agreement explains almost … increase in the real price of beer between 1990 and 1992 due to the Federal excise tax hike on that beverage in 1991 accounts …
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response to earn cigarette puffs. Changing the number of responses required per puff is conceptualized as a price manipulation …. Our experiments show that these price increases decrease cigarette consumption and that price elasticity of demand … increases with increases in price. When from 74 different smokers, participating in 17 different experiments, in our laboratory …
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Half of American households heat their homes with natural gas furnaces and 43% use it to heat their water. Hence, understanding residential natural gas consumption behavior has become a first-order problem. In this paper, we provide the first ever causally identified, microdata-based estimates...
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the price elasticity of demand for each observation and report the average price elasticity across all observations or … report the price elasticity of demand at the mean of the price variable. Policy makers rely on these average price elasticity … estimates for public health and revenue generation purposes. The use of an average price elasticity may yield misleading …
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establishments, with price elasticities similar to those found in the US. In addition, higher coal prices are associated with lower …
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We investigate the relationship between interstate highways and highway vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. We find that VKT increases proportionately to highways and identify three important sources for this extra VKT: an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in...
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