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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers

Borah, Melanie - 2019

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...

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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment

Yu, Haiyue - 2019

China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...

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Unlocking New Methods to Estimate Country-Specific Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities

Freeman, Rebecca; Larch, Mario; Theodorakopoulos, Angelos; … - 2021

We propose new methods to identify the full impact of country-specific characteristics on bilateral trade flows within the framework of ‘the new quantitative trade model.’ We complement theory with a simple two-stage estimating procedure, and offer a proof of concept by quantifying the...

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Exporting Costs and Multi-Product Shipments

Gomtsyan, David; Tarasov, Alexander - 2021

mechanism considered in the paper is based on that multiproduct shipments allow splitting fixed costs per shipment across many … products and, therefore, reducing total shipment costs. As a result, more developed countries tend to have lower fixed costs …-product shipments in determining shipping costs …

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Fiscal Competition in Space and Time : An Endogenous-Growth Approach

Becker, Daniel Thomas; Rauscher, Michael - 2021

of immobile residents. Investment is costly: Quadratic installation and de-installation costs limit the mobility of … and effects of changes in installation costs are ambiguous …

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The Effect of Child Care Costs on Gender Inequality

Casarico, Alessandra; Del Rey, Elena; Silva, José I. - 2022

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that prevents some households from paying child care. We show that this liquidity constraint generates an inefficiency and amplifies gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an...

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Floods and spillovers: households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand

Noy, Ilan; Nguyen, Cuong; Patel, Pooja - 2019

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the flood’s economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use this self-identified flood exposure, and external...

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Measuring the Economic Risk of Epidemics

Noy, Ilan; Doan, Nguyen; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019

We measure the economic risk of epidemics at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery...

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Measuring the Economic Risk of Covid-19

Noy, Ilan; Doan, Nguyen; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020

We measure the economic risk of Covid-19 at a geo-spatially detailed resolution. In addition to data about the current prevalence of confirmed cases, we use data from 2014-2018 and a conceptual disaster risk model to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the local...

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Social Distancing and the Economic Impact of Covid-19 in the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2020

This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We ﬁnd that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...

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