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own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between -1.0 and -1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity … demand is just -0.2 to -0.3, so tax-induced soda price increases might cut average weights by less than one pound, which is …
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of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for …
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of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively …
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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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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
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expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most …
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Despite strong increases in women's labor force participation - especially among married women with children - in the 1980s, and somewhat less strong increases in the 1990s, the first decade of the twenty-first century has seen declines across the board. These have been especially marked among...
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improved Australian estimates of labour supply elasticities and child care demand elasticities with respect to gross child care … child care demand. The new estimates are in line with international findings, and their robustness is supported by a …
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increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand so that … rate be decreased. -- Elasticity of labor demand ; minimum wage …
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between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand. -- Matching … ; employment ; labor demand estimation …
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