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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets: Exploiting the Army’s Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We use the exogenous assignment of Army personnel to duty locations to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822869
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Rustamov, Galib - 2015
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with personalized feedback that will eventually lead to behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420736
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Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2013
-experimental estimators of attribute demand are introduced that address these biases, are transparent, and are straightforward to implement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328924
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The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families
Calvi, Rossella; Penglase, Jacob; Tommasi, Denni; Wolf, … - 2020
The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may benefit from economies of scale in consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497849
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Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and subsequently calculating cross-price effects. However, this traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703012
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Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-experimental estimators of attribute demand are introduced that address these biases, are transparent, and are straightforward to implement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687596
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Social Relations and Remittances: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data
DeVoretz, Don J.; Vadean, Florin P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions as part of a larger expenditure system and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566585
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Telecommunications Dynamics, Output and Employment
Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233868
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284018
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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria – the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763563