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Using happiness surveys to value intangibles : the case of airport noise
Praag, Bernard M. S. van (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001987297
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Residential noise exposure and health : evidence from aviation noise and birth outcomes
Argys, Laura M.; Averett, Susan; Yang, Muzhe - 2019
’ home addresses to measure airport proximity, we find the risk of low birth weight babies increases by 17 percent among … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110475
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Optimizing criminal behavior and the disutility of prison
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017
We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664459
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Greenhouse gas mitigation and price-driven growth in a Solow-Swan economy with an environmental limit
Burda, Michael C.; Zessner-Spitzenberg, Leopold - 2024
expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If the rate of technical progress in mitigation is too low, it becomes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464116
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203
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Modeling immigrants' language skills
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635218
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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births
Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor);  … - 2007
counties of the United States. We find that low-severity storm advisories are associated with a positive and significant … fertility effect and that high-severity advisories have a significant negative fertility effect. As the type of advisory goes … advisories on long run fertility. Our results provide weak evidence at most that the highest severity storm advisories have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635269
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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635285
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What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?
Blau, David (contributor); Goodstein, Ryan (contributor) - 2007
After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637447
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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754906