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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294889
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315507
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Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance
Widmer, Philippe K.; Zweifel, Peter; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011
correction in the estimation of hospital performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316845
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The fallacy of the Good Samaritan: Volunteering as a weird way of making money
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J - 2004
activities in the estimation of wage equations. Moreover, we conclude that the existence of the wage premium is a decisive factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294518
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Parental response to early human capital shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310794
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Parental response to early human capital shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368259
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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615044
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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316907
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How much internalization of nuclear risk through liability insurance?
Schneider, Yves; Zweifel, Peter - 2002
An important source of conflict surrounding nuclear energy is that with a very small probability, a large-scale nuclear accident may occur. One way to internalize the associated financial risks is through mandating nuclear operators to have liability insurance. This paper presents estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315480
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Efficient electricity portfolios for the United States and Switzerland: An investor view
Krey, Boris; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of …, and Solar in the case of Switzerland, a country without domestic supplies of fossil fuels. Since shocks in generation … costs are found to be correlated, Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) is used to filter out the systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315486