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Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor : evidence from rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...

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Perspectives on the early retirement decisions of farming couples

Väre, Minna (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

is important to establish the factors determining the exit from farming among elderly farmers. This study analyses the … choice of pension scheme of farmers. The focus is on the effects of farm and off-farm incomes and various offered economic … incentives on farmers' retirement decisions. The results provide valuable information concerning evaluation of existing …

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The understated "housing shortage" in the United States

Corinth, Kevin; Dante, Hugo - 2022

Following popular discourse, we abuse economic terminology by defining the "housing shortage" in the United States as the difference between the number of homes that would be built in the absence of supply constraints and the actual number of homes. The magnitude of the housing shortage is...

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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...

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Infrastructure's imprint : metro proximity and property development dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil

Grimaldi, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Zimmermann, Beatrice - 2024

How does the proximity to a metro station affect urban development in Latin America? While the literature assessing the causal impacts of transportation infrastructure has grown in recent years, only a few papers have focused on the effects of metro systems in Latin America and the Caribbean...

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A flexible test for present bias and time preferences using land-lease contracts

Gautier, Pieter; Vuuren, Aico van - 2011

When agents have present bias, they discount more between now and the next period than between period t ( 1) and t + 1. How fast the future discount rate (evaluated today) decays is an empirical question. We show that the discount function can be non-parametrically identified with contracts that...

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Migration, capital formation, and house prices

Grossmann, Volker; Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2013

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter (contributor); … - 2007

Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study has been to clarify and examine young people's...

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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2008

We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...

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