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The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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Analyzing a flat income tax in the Netherlands

Jacobs, Bas; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Folmer, Cees - 2007

A flat tax rate on income has gained popularity in European countries. This paper assesses the attractiveness of such a flat tax in achieving redistributive objectives with the least cost to labour market performance. We do so by using a detailed applied general equilibrium model for the...

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Retirement with perfect insurance

Kula, Grzegorz - 2003

worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …

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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …

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Insuring product markets

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Zhou, Liting - 2018

We formally link insurance markets with product markets and identify a demand effect of insurance: if risk …-averse consumers can buy insurance against possible product failure, there will be some additional consumers that buy the product … have a higher willingness to pay if they can also buy insurance. But a higher price causes those consumers to leave the …

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Does improving public transport decrease car ownership? : evidence from the Copenhagen metropolitan area

Mulalic, Ismir; Pilegaard Hansen, Ninette; Rouwendal, Jan - 2015

Car ownership is lower in urban areas, which is probably related to the availability of better public transport. Better public transport thus may offer the possibility to relieve the many problems (congestion, health, and parking) associated with the presence of cars in urban areas. To...

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The compensating income variation of social capital

Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; Praag, … - 2007

There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different measures of social capital: the size of the individual’s social network, the extent of their...

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Teenage motherhood and long-run outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Collective labour supply, taxes, and intrahousehold allocation : an empirical approach

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2015

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...

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How do parents allocate time?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...

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