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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior
Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2011
Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...
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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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Speed limit enforcement and road safety
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019 - This version: December 2019
police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and …
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The cost of binge drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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International trade and monopolistic competition without CES : estimating translog gravity
Novy, Dennis - 2010
equations, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the exporting country only provides a small share of the destination … country's imports. As a result, trade costs have a heterogeneous impact across country pairs, with some trade flows predicted … modest or indistinguishable from zero. -- translog ; trade costs ; gravity ; currency union ; monopolistic competition …
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Trade costs, market access and economic geography : why the empirical specification of trade costs matters
Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2007
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The relationships between costs and user charges : the case of a Norwegian utility service
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2003
The paper investigates the relationships between costs and user charges in the sewage industry in Norwegian local …
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A structural model of demand for apprentices
Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005
It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...
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Same same but different : dialects and trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, … - 2013
that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. -- language ; culture ; trade costs ; gravity …
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Parental time restrictions and the cost of children : insights from a survey among mothers
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Pahlke, Kevin - 2018
In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...
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