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The gasoline price and the commuting behavior: Towards sustainable modes of transport
Belloc, Ignacio; Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022
This paper analyzes how gasoline price is related to the time workers in the US spend commuting by private vehicle, public transport, walking, or cycling. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2019, and collecting data on gasoline price by state and year, we find that...
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The lock-in effect of marriage: Work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated selfemployed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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Weather Shock, Agricultural Productivity and Infant Health: A Tale of Environmental Injustice
Pal, Soumya - 2021
We study how income shock affect due to weather shock causally impacts the birth outcomes. We selected households depended directly on agriculture due to their extreme vulnerability to temperature and rainfall shocks. We find large efficiency loss attributed to weather shock for major food crops...
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The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
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A parsimonious model of longevity, fertility, HIV transmission and development
Gori, Luca; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
A central policy issue in the battle against HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is whether and when high-prevalence countries might become fully autonomous in designing and implementing their own intervention policies aimed to control the disease. The aim of this research is twofold. First, it...
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A parsimonious model of optimal social distancing and vaccination during an outbreak
Gori, Luca; Manfredi, Piero; Marsiglio, Simone; Sodini, … - 2023
Motivated by the complicated control issues of COVID-19, this article aims at investigating the optimal control of an epidemic of a Susceptible-Infective-Removed-Susceptible (SIRS) infection, where social distancing is the only control action in a first stage, whereas a combination of social...
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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development
Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
The aim of this research is to build on a theory for explaining economic development in a (neoclassical) growth model with endogenous fertility. The economy is comprised of overlapping generations of rational and identical individuals and identical competitive firms producing with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780706
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply: An international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189094
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Health, Cognition and Work Capacity Beyond the Age of 50
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2019
The rising cost of old-age dependency in Europe and elsewhere invariably leads to reforms aimed at raising the effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al. (2012), this paper asks how much older individuals could...
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