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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an...
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Unintended consequences of a pre-announced climate policy have been studied in a variety of situations. We show that early announcement of a carbon tax gives rise to a "Green-Paradox", in that it increases polluting emissions in the interim period (between announcement and actual...
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This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
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characteristics of the Canton of Bern using household-level data. In particular, we exploit quasi-natural policy variation in voting …
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Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...
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