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Urban infrastructure and economic development: Experimental evidence from street pavement
Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010
We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing values by 16% and land values by 54%, according to professional appraisals. Using homeowner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278694
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Urban Infrastructure and Economic Development: Experimental Evidence from Street Pavement
Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing values by 16% and land values by 54%, according to professional appraisals. Using homeowner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756380
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The value relevance of top executive departures: evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276315
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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation: Announcement and implementation effects
Blundell, Richard; Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, … - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282467
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345387
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Immigrant child poverty in Scandinavia: a panel data study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269314
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Legal Drinking, Injury and Harm: Evidence from the Introduction and Modifications of Age Limits in Denmark
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Nilsson, Anton - 2020
, most countries have implemented policies such as minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs). Denmark, a country with an … the MLDA in Denmark to estimate effects on all classes of injuries, as well as alcohol-related outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270079
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Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Jakobsen, Vibeke; Mac Innes, … - 2021
, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882458
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Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark
Altindag, Onur; Greve, Jane; Tekin, Erdal - 2022
), using population data from Denmark in a regression discontinuity research design. The information campaign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351937
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Reminder Design and Childhood Vaccination Coverage
Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296621