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The Health Toll of Import Competition
Adda, Jerome - 2020
This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first …. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health and mortality, we find that import had a detrimental effect on … physical and mental health that is concentrated in those areas and exhibits strong persistence. It decreased health care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842065
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Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129098
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Labour Supply and Commuting
Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2010
A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146827
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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...
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Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions : New Causal Evidence
Coibion, Olivier - 2019
We use a unique design feature of a survey of Italian firms to study the causal effect of inflation expectations on firms' economic decisions. In the survey, a randomly chosen subset of firms is repeatedly treated with information about recent inflation (or the European Central Bank's inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894535
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127723
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128226
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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard - 2011
Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde - 2011
, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …
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