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of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real …
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Most activities in life require a certain amount of continuous time. Yet, in the traditional economic model of time … allocation, the time block is not taken into account. Hence, the same amount of utility is derived from an activity regardless of … whether it is performed continuously over one time block or divided into n separated periods. This paper presents an extension …
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Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test … administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of … Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as …
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, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to estimate the value of time (V OT), a key input into cost … activities as well as their interactions. We are the first to value time (or indeed anything) using hedonic experiences in real-time …
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speeding and gasoline prices. This presents a new methodology of deriving the 'Value of Time' (VOT) based on the intensive …
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Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not...
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We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and characterize how one agent's private valuation of the...
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The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to … Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate whether and how various dimensions of working time flexibility affect the … amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment …
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