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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco - 2015
of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083957
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The Effect of Wealth and Earned Income on the Decision to Retire : A Dynamic Probit Examination of Retirement
Bender, Keith A. - 2014
This paper estimates the propensity to retire and the persistence of remaining retired once the decision to retire has been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058740
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Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants : Does English Proficiency Matter?
Aoki, Yu - 2018
class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925504
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Widening Participation in Higher Education : Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
Chowdry, Haroon - 2010
cohorts of students in England ﾖ those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 ﾖ from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141731
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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
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain : Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Chib, Siddhartha - 2011
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128224