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This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … small. Finally, work timing behavior affects the demand for informal child care, but not the demand for formal child care …
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In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … demand. The presence of a cost of firing or hiring as in Bagliano & Bertola (2004) generates an intertemporal element to a …
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-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that … the demand for life insurance reacted strongly to this change. With regard to bequest motives, we analyze the demand for … viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations which …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …
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, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We …
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in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of schooling of those born after 1986 from 5 to 8 years. We find that …
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What do applicants care about when choosing a school in Turkey? Are their preferences vertical or horizontal? Which …
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In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...
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This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper …
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In this paper we perform an empirical analysis to investigate the impact of socio-economic heterogeneity on electoral turnout. We exploit a unique dataset on local elections in an Italian municipality, which merges information on socio-economic characteristics of about 370,000 individuals with...
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