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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021

Sweden, we adopt several different approaches to deal with these problems. The results are robust in the sense that …

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Airport Noise Regulation, Airline Service Quality, and Social Welfare

Brueckner, Jan K.; Girvin, Raquel - 2021

This paper explores the impact of airport noise regulation on airline service quality and airfares. It also … characterizes the socially optimal stringency of noise limits, taking both noise damage and the various costs borne by airlines and … their passengers into account. The analysis also investigates the effect of noise taxes, as well as the optimal level of …

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A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan

Fullerton, Don - 2014

Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects...

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How Large are Road Traffic Externalities in the City? The Highway Tunneling in Maastricht, the Netherlands

Tijm, Joep - 2018

Infrastructure projects are increasingly aiming to improve liveability, in particular in urban areas. We analyse a specific case in which an existing highway in an urban area was moved underground in order to improve intercity traffic flows and to reduce traffic externalities. As travel times...

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Railways and the Productivity Gap in Italy : Persistence and Divergence after Unification

Pontarollo, Nicola - 2015

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers across the pre-existing states, with a single currency. Market integration was the economic outcome of this process. At the same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large...

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What Should Fiscal Councils Do?

Calmfors, Lars - 2011

The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...

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Tax Policy and Employment : How Does the Swedish System Fare?

Pirttila, Jukka - 2011

elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on …

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz - 2011

municipalities throughout Sweden during the period 1985-94 to isolate exogenous variation in immigrant shares. We match data on …

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behavior will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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