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.S transit agencies with transit agencies in Germany and the United Kingdom. We study U.S urban public sector energy efficiency …
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This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
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This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …
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We define the Fisherian Golden Rule measure of bond market inflation expectations as the difference between bond rates and trend real GDP growth rates. The concept is based on the Fisherian theory that an increase in longer-term inflation expectations would be reflected in longer-term interest...
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subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process … percent at its peak in 2030. In this respect, changes that are occurring in Germany now may be regarded as indicative for … changes to come in the United States. Retirement, savings and housing behavior differ quite markedly between Germany and the …
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Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
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taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …
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