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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life : The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Greenstone, Michael - 2004
that the same issues plague the estimation of monetary trade-offs regarding safety in other contexts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270566
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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; de Groot, Henri L. F. - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398358
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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886147
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Terror and the costs of crime
Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - 2009
This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i …) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269432
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822739
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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley; Greenstone, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
that the same issues plague the estimation of monetary trade-offs regarding safety in other contexts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822645
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Terror and the Costs of Crime
Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i …) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976881
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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274178
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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring
Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282200
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Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401703