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Hypermarket competition and the diffusion of retail checkout barcode scanning

Beck, Jonathan (contributor); Grajek, Michal (contributor); … - 2005

hypermarkets raises competitive intensity and use hypermarket data, among other variables, in a pooled estimation. Results suggest … that hypermarket competition reduces long-run adoption of information technology (IT) in retailing. In particular, the …

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Complementarities, below-cost pricing, and welfare losses

Schlippenbach, Vanessa von (contributor) - 2008

We analyze below-cost pricing in retail markets and examine its impact on social welfare as well as on suppliers' incentives to invest in quality. Considering negotiations about a linear wholesale price between the retailer and her suppliers, we find that below-cost pricing aggravates the double...

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The preadult origins of post-materialism : a longitudinal sibling study

Kroh, Martin (contributor) - 2008

Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades, this paper provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, we test the combined socialization and scarcity hypothesis...

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Does parental unemployment cause right-wing extremism?

Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates …

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Employment generation in rural Africa : mid-term results from an experimental evaluation of the youth opportunities program in Northern Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - 2012

Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the … poor access to credit is a major reason youth cannot start these vocations in the absence of aid. Much of the heterogeneity …

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A lost generation? : Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

Previous research on orphanhood has established that parental death has a negative effect in terms of school enrollment and grade progression, but the relation between orphanhood and socioeconomic outcomes in young adults has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, I use a...

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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach

Schreyögg, Jonas (contributor); … - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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In vino pecunia? : the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (contributor); … - 2008

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...

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Consumer shopping costs as a cause of slotting fees : a rent-shifting mechanism

Caprice, Stéphane; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - 2010

Analyzing a sequential bargaining framework with one retailer and two suppliers of substitutable goods, we show that slotting fees may emerge as a result of a rent-shifting mechanism when consumer shopping costs are taken into account. If consumers economize on their shopping costs by bundling...

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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...

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