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New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration
Beine, Michel A. R.; Bierlaire, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric - 2021
The question of how people revise their decisions about whether to emigrate, and where to, when facing changes in the global environment is of critical importance in migration literature. We propose a cross-nested logit (CNL) approach to generalize the way deviations from the IIA (independence...
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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 …
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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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British Voting Intentions and the Far Reach of 11 September Terrorist Attacks in New York
Stancanelli, Elena - 2023
Terrorist attacks have often been found to impact voting behaviours in the country of the attack. Here I study the impact of 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York on voting preferences in the UK, concluding that 9/11 impacted the voting intentions of the British, significantly increasing...
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson - 2023
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
Banks, James W. - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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