Similar Search Results

Do I really need to go to rehab? I'd say no, no, no.: estimating price elasticities of convalescent care programs

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009

This study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and … symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or … decrease in total demand of about 20 percent. We estimate the price elasticity for rehabilitation programs that aim at …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271114

Does social policy through rent controls inhibit new construction? Some answers from long-run historical evidence

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Kohl, Sebastian - 2020

The (re-)introduction of rent regulation in the form of rent controls, tenant protection or supply rationing is back on the agenda of policymakers in light of rent inflation in many global cities. While rent control as social policy promises short-term relief, economists point to their negative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152711

Macroeconomic effects of rental housing regulations: The case of Germany in 1950-2015

Cholodilin, Konstantin A.; Licheron, Julien - 2017

Despite rather skeptical attitude of the economists toward the state intervention in the housing markets, the policy makers and general public typically are supporting it. As a result, in many European countries, since World War I the rent and eviction controls as well as social housing policies...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622027

Airbnb and rents: Evidence from Berlin

Duso, Tomaso; Michelsen, Claus; Schaefer, Maximilian; … - 2020

Cities worldwide have regulated peer-to-peer short-term rental platforms claiming that those platforms remove apartments from the long-term housing market, causing an in- crease in rents. Establishing and quantifying such a causal link is, however, challenging. We investigate two policy changes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259642

Meet the parents? The causal effect of family size on the geographic distance between adult children and older parents

Holmlund, Helena; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2009

An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different configurations of fam- ily size and sibship influence patterns of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271134

Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.

DiPrete, Thomas A. - 2001

Intragenerational mobility has been a central concern in sociology, especially in the latter half of the 20th century. Most of this analysis has proceeded using measures of social position that are functions of an individual's occupation. This approach has been based on two primary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260771