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Fatal errors : the mortality value of accurate weather forecasts

Shrader, Jeffrey; Bakkensen, Laura; Lemoine, Derek - 2023

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in...

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Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? : a meta-analytical review of the literature

Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2021

We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations...

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Back to bentham, should we? : large-scale comparison of experienced versus decision utility

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017

Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. Interpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...

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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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AI, skill, and productivity : the case of taxi drivers

Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - 2022

assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI …

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Quashing demand criminalizing clients? : evidence from the UK

Della Giusta, Marina; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Jewell, Sarah - 2019

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …

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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

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Musn't grumble : immigration, health and health service use in the UK and Germany

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2012

A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...

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Do you have to win it to fix it? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand

Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2015

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in …

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Labour market expectations and unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...

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