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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. -- Age at entry ;...
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demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are …
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We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter … role for demand stimulus policy to buffer the Covid-19 economic crisis. …
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price …
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This paper examines the advantages and drawbacks of alternative methods of estimating oil supply and oil demand … conclusion that the one-month oil supply elasticity is close to zero, which implies that oil demand shocks are the dominant …
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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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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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associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations … and reduced the demand for medium wage occupations. Nearly 25 percent of the variation in the demand for occupations can …
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Using an extensive longitudinal dataset extracted from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) containing all prescriptions written in the period January 2004 to June 2007, we selected two particular drugs (chemical substances) used against cholesterol. The two brand-name products on the...
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The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...
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