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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925549
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Economic surplus and derived demand
Schlicht, Ekkehart (contributor) - 2006
Most demand -- especially labor demand -- is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates … case of derived demand. -- derived demand ; indirect demand ; consumers's surplus ; economic rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333109
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Does electricity drive structural transformation? : evidence from the United States
Gaggl, Paul; Gray, Rowena; Marinescu, Ioana; Morin, Miguel - 2020
Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213897
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716525
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011635
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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...
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Diverging patterns of education premium and school attendance in France and the US : a Walrasian view
De la Croix, David (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
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A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of …
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Defensive investments and the demand for air quality : evidence from the NOx budget program and ozone reductions
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2013
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research …
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