In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …

separately, according to their potential earnings rather than gender. Our results show an average participation elasticity of 0 …

preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal … measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice … labor supply model. We use this preference information to construct welfare orderings of households according to the …

I assert that air pollution from nitrogen oxides affects the productivity of employees in Mexican court hearings. This … is the first article analyzing this connection and the first to disentangle work-breaks from the productivity of white … productivity and identify causality from panel and instrumental variable techniques. Results show a loss of 3.83 workdays during …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …