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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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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 …

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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...

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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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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Koning, Pierre - 2013

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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Charters Without Lotteries : Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2015

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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Paintings and Numbers : An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions

Campos, Nauro F. - 2020

This paper uses a unique data set of Latin American paintings auctioned by Sothebyamp;apos's between 1995 and 2002 to investigate several puzzles from the recent auctions literature. Our results suggest that: (1) the reputation of an artist and the provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in...

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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...

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