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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083957
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Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession : Evidence from a Policing Experiment
Adda, Jerome - 2014
of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. Such a policy can: (i) impact the demand for cannabis in Lambeth as users …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057052
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Educational, Labor-Market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2021
Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this question using inpatient hospital admission records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed effects estimates indicate that in comparison to their brothers, boys with health deficiencies were more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244276
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246904
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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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Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Challenges and Lessons Learned
Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2018
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented around the world. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910748
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness
Ermisch, John - 2011
We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. These previous interviews allow us to have very good income measures, and in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127916
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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment : A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
Salvatori, Andrea - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128214