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Heijnen, Pim; Soetevent, Adriaan - 2014

This paper extends Hotelling's model of price competition with quadratic transportation costs from a line to graphs. We …

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Price competition on graphs

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2011

This paper extends Hotelling's model of price competition with quadratic transportation costs from a line to graphs. I …

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021

We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...

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Religion and income

Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2008

influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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The bicausal relation between religion and income

Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2005

In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …

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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance

Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023

What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...

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How does market access affect smallholder behavior? : the case of tobacco marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2012

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How does market access for smallholders affect export supply? : the case of tobacco marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2016

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi's major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor to measure the impact of a reduction in...

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Multi-store competition : market segmentation or interlacing?

Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Karamychev, Vladimir A.; … - 2004

This paper develops a model for multi-store competition between firms. Using thefact that different firms have different outlets and produce horizontally differentiated goods, we obtain a pure strategy equilibrium where firms choose a different location for each outlet and firms' locations are...

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