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Green Governments
Potrafke, Niklas; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. We exploit that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. Using the synthetic control method, we find...
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Joint Retirement of Couples : Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark
García-Miralles, Esteban; Leganza, Jonathan M. - 2021
We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension eligibility age. Next, we explore underlying...
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market : Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …
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Climate Mitigation Policy in Denmark : A Prototype for Other Countries
Batini, Nicoletta; Parry, Ian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021
Denmark has a highly ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. While … there is general agreement that carbon pricing should be the centerpiece of Denmark’s mitigation strategy, pricing needs to … strategy Denmark develops can be a good prototype for others to follow. This paper discusses mechanisms to scale up domestic …
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Linking Changes in Inequality in Life Expectancy and Mortality : Evidence from Denmark and the United States
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020
inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …
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Marriage and the City
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
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Child Penalties in Politics
Fiva, Jon H.; King, Max-Emil M. - 2022
Women tend to experience substantial declines in their labor income after their first child is born, while men do not. Do such “child penalties” also exist in the political arena? Using extensive administrative data from Norway and an event-study methodology, we find that women drop out of...
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The Effects of Heterogeneous Sanctions on Exporting Firms —Evidence from Denmark
Jäkel, Ina; Østervig, Søren Aasborg; Yalcin, Erdal - 2022
register data, including information on firm-destination-specific exports, with information on sanctions imposed by Denmark …
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Think Locally, Act Locally : Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking
Ogawa, Hikaru; Wildasin, David E. - 2021
In this paper, we analyze a class of models in which there are interjurisdictional spillovers among heterogeneous jurisdictions, as illustrated for instance by CO2 emissions that affect the global environment. Each jurisdiction's emissions depend upon the local stock of private capital. Capital...
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Conservation by Lending
Harstad, Bård; Storesletten, Kjetil - 2023
This project analyzes how a principal can motivate an agent to conserve rather than exploit a depletable resource. This dynamic problem is relevant for tropical deforestation as well as for other environmental problems. It is shown that the smaller is the agent's discount factor (e.g., because...
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