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The Effects of Eu-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
Muraközy, Balázs - 2020
our simple calculations, each year's subsidy program created jobs in grant winning firms equivalent to 0.3-0.5 percent of …
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
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How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore
Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016
We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field : An Experiment in Public Transportations
Dai, Zhixin - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...
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The Accident Externality from Trucking
Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2017
How much risk does a heavy truck impose on highway safety? To answer this question, we look at the rapid influx of trucks during the shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. Using quasi-experimental variation in truck traffic, we isolate the effect of adding a truck to the road. We find an additional...
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Revitalising the Silk Road : Evidence from Railway Infrastructure Investments in Northwest China
Yu, Lamont; Tran, Trang; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of the only high-speed rail (HSR) line in northwest China which connects China’s northwestern...
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2011
receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126131
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Higher Education in Turkey : Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?
Caner, Asena - 2012
We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with different socioeconomic backgrounds. We use a unique dataset from a nationally representative sample of university entrance exam takers together with data on government subsidies...
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