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Concentration of hospital capacities and patients' access to care
Mensen, Anne - 2022
The concentration of hospital capacities often involves closures of smaller hospital sites. While advocates of hospital concentrations emphasize increased quality of care and cost savings, some people may feel their health care is at risk. In this paper, I analyze the effect of 18 recent...
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Life Expectancy and Mother-Baby Interventions. Evidence from A Historical Trial
Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of maternal and infant health programs to improve the life expectancy of women and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from parish records and aggregate data from annual reports of...
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Life Expectancy and Mother-Baby Interventions. Evidence from A Historical Trial
Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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Continuation of air services at Berlin-Tegel and its effects on rental prices
Breidenbach, Philipp; Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Schaffner, Sandra - 2019
city, with the other airports expected to close, construction work at BER is still ongoing in 2019. Four weeks before the … Berlin-Brandenburg. A series of additional delay announcements followed. We analyze the effect of airport noise and proximity … of Berlin-Tegel airport. The results suggest that there is a negative effect of noise on housing rental prices while …
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Values, attitudes and economic behavior
Roos, Michael W. M. - 2018
In this paper, I propose a simple model in which behavior is determined by the individual's attitude towards the behavior and the attitude depends on the individual's values. The model is based on the Schwartz theory of human values, which is very prominent in social psychology. Values are...
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How Full Is the tank? – Insights on Short-run Fuel Price Reactions from German Travel Diary Data
Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2013
We provide evidence that motorists respond to short-run fluctuations in fuel prices at the gas pump and not on the road. Employing variants of censored panel regression to control for unobserved heterogeneity and censoring of the dependent variable, we find that the fuel price has a large and...
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Spring forward, don't fall back: The effect of daylight saving time on road safety
Bünnings, Christian; Schiele, Valentin - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the effect of light conditions on road accidents and estimate the long run consequences of different time regimes for road safety. Identification is based on variation in light conditions induced by differences in sunrise and sunset times across space and time. We find...
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Gender and the Automobile – An Analysis of Non-work Service Trips
Vance, Colin; Iovanna, Rich - 2007
Focusing on individual motorists in car-owning households in Germany, this analysis econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile travel for non-work service activities against the backdrop of two questions: 1) Does gender play a role in determining the probability of car use and...
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The socio-economic and environmental impact of a large infrastructure project: The case of the Konkan Railway in India
Jaiswal, Sreeja; Bensch, Gunther; Navalkar, Aniket; … - 2022
Railways are a key infrastructure that facilitates trade and regional integration with potential consequences on local development and the environment in hitherto backward regions. In this article, we study the medium- to long-term socio-economic and environmental infrastructure impacts for the...
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Reducing vehicle cold start emissions through carbon pricing: Evidence from Germany
Frondel, Manuel; Marggraf, Clemens; Sommer, Stephan; … - 2021
A large proportion of local pollutants originating from the road transport sector is generated during the so-called cold-start phase of driving, that is, the first few minutes of driving after a car has stood inactive for several hours. Drawing on data from the German Mobility Panel (MOP), this...
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