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Sorting based on Urban Heritage and Income: Evidence from the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

Urban heritage is often concentrated in conservation areas with a protected status. Previous research argues that urban heritage attracts especially higher educated households who are likely to have higher incomes. The presence of these households may have a further impact on the attractiveness...

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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis

Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...

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Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition

Lach, Saul; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper examines how the distribution of prices changes with the number of competitors in the market. Using gasoline price data from the Netherlands we find that as competition increases, the distribution of prices spreads out: the low prices go down while the high prices go up, on average....

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New Developments in the Measurement of Welfare and Well-being

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Plug, Erik J.S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper is dating from 1995, when it has been presented at the Ragnar Frisch Centennial Memorial Conference in Oslo. It has never been published before.In this paper for the first time the Cantril ladder question data have been employed in the way which later has become known as happiness...

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Marriage Markets and Single Motherhood in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble Y. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of sibship size and birth order on educational attainment, for the United States and the Netherlands. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the effect of sibship size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex...

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...

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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922

Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

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