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A number of prominent studies examine the long-run effects of neighborhood attributes on children by leveraging … variation in neighborhood exposure through household moves. How-ever, much neighborhood change comes in place rather than … neighborhood attributes on long-run outcomes for incumbent children and households. For identification, we make use of quasi …
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or inefficient outcome will prevail. We performed an experiment with human subjects exploring how free neighborhood … inefficient outcome. In a treatment with neighborhood choice, the outcome is dramatically different: behavior quickly converges to … the socially desirable outcome leading to welfare gains 2.5 times higher than in the environment without neighborhood …
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The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a limited set of factors commonly...
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In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could …
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
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The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...
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The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
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We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...
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A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …
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We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
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