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Who Cares About Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health
Ratcliffe, Anita - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...
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The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health
Dustmann, Christian - 2014
experienced by in the direct aftermath of the London Bombings of Jul 7th, 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061959
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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2022
This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London … Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London …. The scheme imposes charges on most types of cars entering, exiting and operating within the Central London area, while …
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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137517
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Transactions Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2013
In this paper we adapt the model of MacLeod (2007) to provide one way to formally implement some of Williamson's ideas regarding the effect of transactions costs upon employment relationship. We then explore the empirical implications of this model with a data set that measures job...
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Leader Networks and Transaction Costs : A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting
Chau, Nancy H. - 2016
Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the role of leader networks on the boundary between jurisdictions that embrace trade versus autarky....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001319
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Checkerboards and Coase : Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets
Akee, Randall - 2021
The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to efficient outcomes after the transactions cost is...
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Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device
Persyn, Damiaan - 2021
We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...
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The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage : Evidence from the Great Recession
Cawley, John - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...
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More Schooling, More Children : Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119540