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In course of the current energy crisis, the consequences of increasing gas prices are heavily discussed. To date, however, there is no evidence of the impact of gas prices on the labor market. Using administrative employment data from 2012-2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas...
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How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...
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The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both benefits and costs, but the net effects for local...
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This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...
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women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5%. To study the allocation of expenditures within the food … expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor …, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to …
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and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as … important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional … quantile regression results show the heterogeneity in the impact of many variables across the trip expenditure distribution …
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Education Statistics data on school district expenditures. School districts that switch to the four-day school weeks reduce … operating expenditures per pupil by 3.1 percent. The largest percentage reductions occur in spending areas where services are … reduced one day per week (e.g., food service, transportation), with little to no change in instructional expenditures …
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difference-in-differences approach, we explore the causal effect of this policy on expenditure and financial difficulties of … beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on …
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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …
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This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...
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