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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of East Germans in the years following reunification. Reunification was completely unanticipated and therefore can be seen as a providing some exogenous variation, which resulted...

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How Well Do Individuals Predict Their Future Life Satisfaction? Rationality and Learning Following a Nationwide Exogenous Shock

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

Over recent years a number of papers have uses individual or household longitudinal survey data to investigate the rationality of income expectations. In this paper we provide a novel contribution to this literature by examining the ability of individuals to correctly predict their own future...

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Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability

Blass, Asher; Lach, Saul; Manski, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

When data on actual choices are not available, researchers studying preferences sometimes pose choice scenarios and ask respondents to state the actions they would choose if they were to face these scenarios. The data on stated choices are then used to estimate random utility models, as if they...

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Shopping around? How households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Over the Great Recession real wages stagnated and unemployment increased. Concurrently, food prices rose sharply, outstripping growth in food expenditure, and leading to a reduction in calories purchased. This has led to concern about rising food poverty. We study British households to assess...

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Liquidity Supply and Demand in Limit Order Markets

Hollifield, Burton; Miller, Robert A.; Sandås, Patrik; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We model a trader’s decision to supply liquidity by submitting limit orders or demand liquidity by submitting market orders in a limit order market. The best quotes and the execution probabilities and picking off risks of limit orders determine the price of immediacy. The price of immediacy...

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Welfare regimes and the incentives to work and get educated

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … weakest welfare systems, i.e. those with what is known as ‘Residual’ welfare regimes (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal …

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Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case

Flipo, Anne; Fougère, Denis; Olier, Lucile - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Our paper is concerned with the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we consider the particular case of the French legislation voted in 1991. This law allows households employing paid help in the home to deduct from their income tax 50% of the sums...

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Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Buyer Power between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Evidence on Food Retailing in France

Bonnet, Céline; Dubois, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We present the first empirical estimation of a structural model taking into account explicitly the endogenous buyer power of downstream players facing two part tariffs contracts offered by the upstream level. We consider vertical contracts between manufacturers and retailers where resale price...

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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico

de Janvry, Alain; Dubois, Pierre; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the dynamic educational process including the endogeneity and uncertainty of performance at school (passing grades) and the effect of a...

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Structural Adjustment and the Sectoral and Geographical Mobility of Labour

Greenaway, David; Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Conventional methods for analysing worker flows often focus on gross flows or transition probabilities. This is not necessarily informative for identifying the scale of labour ‘adjustment’ in an economy in the sense of the expansion and decline of industries. We develop a method that relates...

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