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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 motivated by the low proportion of married among African mothers since 48% are never married. This means that the children of all these never married mothers have no access to...

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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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Perfection and Stability of Stationary Points with Applications to Noncooperative Games

Laan, Gerard van der; Talman, Dolf; Yang, Zaifu - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'SIAM Journal on Optimization', 2006, 16, 854-870. <P> It is well known that an upper semi-continuous compact- and convex-valued mapping fi from a nonempty compact and convex set X to the Euclidean space of which X is a subset has at least one...</p>

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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …

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Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in … a recession to those born in the preceding boom, and we estimate duration models where the individual's mortality rate …

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