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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of “taste for leisure” in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020703
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Community Choice and Local Public Services : A Discrete Choice Approach
Nechyba, Thomas J.; Strauss, Robert P. - 2021
This paper uses a discrete choice approach to estimate the impact of local fiscal and other variables on individual community choices. It employs a combination of a unique micro data set composed of ninety percent of all homeowners in six school districts in Camden County, New Jersey and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232153
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Crowdsourcing City Government : Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016
Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995969
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : the Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016
Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996392
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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply with Coordinated Working Times
Rogerson, Richard - 2010
implications for how aggregate labor supply responds to changes in taxes. In the first model, curvature in the utility from leisure … extent of curvature in the utility from leisure function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134860
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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity
Saffer, Henry - 2011
activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and … health. Many prior studies have relied primarily on leisure-time physical activity, which typically constitutes only about 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120299
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121058
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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2011
This paper exploits the richness and large sample size of the Gallup/Healthways US daily poll to illustrate significant differences in the dynamics of two key measures of subjective well-being: emotions and life evaluations. We find that there is no day-of-week effect for life evaluations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122657
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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in the Us, 1980-2010
Attanasio, Orazio - 2012
Recent research has documented that income inequality in the United States has increased dramatically over the prior three decades. There has been less of a consensus, however, on whether the increase in income inequality was matched by an equally large increase in consumption inequality. Most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107973
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College as Country Club : Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?
Jacob, Brian A. - 2013
This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087875