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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents
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Structural Interpretation of Vecor Autoregressions with Incomplete Identification : Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks
Baumeister, Christiane - 2018
and demand. Supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements and inventory accumulation … uncertainty about the identifying assumptions themselves. We use this approach to revisit the importance of shocks to oil supply … a smaller factor than implied by earlier estimates. Supply shocks lead to a reduction in global economic activity after …
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Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Information : Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks: Comment
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021
mainly the imposition of a highly unrealistic prior for the global impact price elasticity of oil supply. Once identification … uncertainty about the global price elasticity of oil supply is accounted for by specifying a prior more in line with extraneous …
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Choosing Among Competing Blockbusters : Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matter for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten - 2010
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8% of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. With use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, this paper examines to what extent the identity of the...
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A Probability Approach to Pharmaceutical Demand and Price Setting : Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matters for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten - 2011
structural model for the three drugs, covering demand and price setting, is estimated in a joint maximum likelihood approach. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118139
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Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School
Baert, Stijn - 2016
A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to regression discontinuity designs, this approach captures treatment heterogeneity and controls for...
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Housing Environmental Risk in Urban Areas : Cross Country Comparison and Policy Implications
Chiarini, Bruno - 2018
The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
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Demand for Sexual Services in Britain : Does Sex Education Matter?
Strøm, Steinar - 2018
role in the demand for paid sex. At the time of availability of our data, sex education was compulsory only in council …
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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination
Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015
In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011648
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Unobserved Tax Avoidance and the Tax Elasticity of FDI
Egger, Peter H. - 2014
This paper investigates the tax responsiveness of multinational firms' investment decisions in foreign countries, distinguishing firms that are able to avoid taxes (avoiders) from those that are not (non-avoiders). From a theoretical point of view, the tax responsiveness of firms crucially...
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