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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility

Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...

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Accounting for limited commitment between spouses when estimating labor-supply elasticities

Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan Hendrik; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at the household level. We show that proxying individual...

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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013

externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only …

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Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions

Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - 2013

job centers. In a decentralized economy job-seekers do not internalize a composition externality they impose on all the …

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Training funds and the incidence of training : the case of Mauritius

Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Rojid, Sawkut; … - 2015

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...

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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...

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Alcohol price floors and externalities : the case of fatal road crashes

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2022

In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not...

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Measuring social and externality benefits of in influenza vaccination

White, Corey D. - 2019

magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural … examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … social benefits of vaccination are substantial, most of benefits operate through an externality, and that the benefits of …

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The accident externality from trucking

Muehlenbachs, Lucija A.; Staubli, Stefan; Chu, Ziyan - 2017

The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise … the road. This negative externality falls on all road users through higher car insurance premiums: one truck, driving for …

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Testing for repugnance in economic transactions : evidence from guest work in the Gulf

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...

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