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Targeting taxes on local externalities
Gauthier, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - 2023
individuals who cause it. For instance, urban fuel consumers generate greater pollution damages compared to rural consumers, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480706
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Complementarities in the production of child health
Abramovsky, Laura; Augsburg, Britta; Jervis, Pamela; … - 2019
This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed information on nutrition intake and WASH investments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265313
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How might in-home scanner technology be used in budget surveys?
Leicester, Andrew - 2012
food and drink expenditures in two British datasets: the Living Costs and Food Survey (the main budget survey) and Kantar … more similar, as are Engel curves relating food commodity budget shares to total food expenditures. A key finding is that …, of weekly food expenditures and budget shares, which has important implications for whether two-week spending diaries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330996
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How might in-home scanner technology be used in budget surveys?
Leicester, Andrew - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2012
food and drink expenditures in two British datasets: the Living Costs and Food Survey (the main budget survey) and Kantar … more similar, as are Engel curves relating food commodity budget shares to total food expenditures. A key finding is that …, of weekly food expenditures and budget shares, which has important implications for whether two-week spending diaries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651938
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Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from india
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2023
This study explores the interaction between the quality of public services, the implementation of user fees, and the resulting potential for exclusion, that can lead to negative externalities. Our theoretical framework takes account of the possible externalities that result from excluded users...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480497
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The impact pf parental income and education on the schooling of their children
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2005
This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age. Least squares estimation reveals conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292953
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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275733
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There and back again: Women's marginal commuting costs
Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024
We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure...
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First generation elite: The role of school networks
Cattan, Sarah; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2023
High school students from non-elite backgrounds are less likely to have peers with elite educated parents than their elite counterparts in Norway. We show this difference in social capital is a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education. We identify a positive elite...
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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes
Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023
Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...
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