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Quashing demand criminalizing clients? : evidence from the UK
Della Giusta, Marina; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Jewell, Sarah - 2019
We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …
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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935113
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Intergenerational analysis of social interaction
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2011
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235545
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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339678
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Musn't grumble : immigration, health and health service use in the UK and Germany
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2012
A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620940
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Do you have to win it to fix it? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498373
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
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Intrafamily resource allocations : a dynamic model of birth weight
Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Ermisch, John (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...
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Where do the brainy Italians go?
Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008
This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710