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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...

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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009

Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...

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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2009

. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those … fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the pattern of overseas travel in a quantitative way. As we show, despite the … impact of a myriad of episodic events, the fluctuations in travel can be explained to a large extent by changes in the direct …

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2008

's establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …

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Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?

Cutler, David M. - 2006

While Americans are less healthy than Europeans along some dimensions (like obesity), Americans are significantly less likely to smoke than their European counterparts. This difference emerged in the 1970s and it is biggest among the most educated. The puzzle becomes larger once we account for...

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...

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Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples

Hirano, Keisuke - 1998

In many fields researchers wish to consider statistical models that allow for more complex relationships than can be inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different points in time can often provide the richer data...

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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...

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Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities : Evidence from Amsterdam

Almagro, Milena; Domínguez-Iino, Tomás - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, we show the distributional effects of mass tourism depend on this heterogeneity: following rent increases due to growing …

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