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Welfare analysis with a proxy consumption measure : evidence from a repeated experiment in Indonesia
Pradhan, Menno - 2001
Every three years, Indonesia fields simultaneously two nationwide surveys which collect consumption data. Onecollects consumption using 23 questions, the other using 320 questions. Based on a repeated experiment inwhich the two questionnaires were randomly assigned across households, I examine...
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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
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Welfare analysis with a proxy consumption measure
Pradhan, Menno - 2001
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The stature of the self-employed and its premium
Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Hessels, Jolanda; Zwan, Peter … - 2014
Taller individuals typically have occupations with higher social status and higher earnings than shorter individuals. Further, entrepreneurship is associated with high social status in numerous countries; hence, entrepreneurs might be taller than wage workers. Using data from the German...
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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation
Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016
Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local environments. Dam projects may further exacerbate already existing problems in trans-boundary rivers. We consider three scenarios of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues...
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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Convergence in European GDP series
Luginbuhl, Rob; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2003
Convergence in gross domestic product series of five European countriesis empirically identified using multivariate time series models that arebased on unobserved components with dynamic converging properties.We define convergence in terms of a decrease in dispersion over timeand model this...
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On the concept of green national income
Vellinga, Nico; Withagen, Cees - 1995
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Sharp threshold detection based on sup-norm error rates in high-dimensional models
Callot, Laurent; Caner, Mehmet; Kock, Anders Bredahl; … - 2015
We propose a new estimator, the thresholded scaled Lasso, in high dimensional threshold regressions. First, we establish an upper bound on the l∞ estimation error of the scaled Lasso estimator of Lee et al. (2012). This is a non-trivial task as the literature on high-dimensional models has...
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The (hidden) cost of employer parking policies
Ommeren, Jos van; Wentink, Derk - 2010
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