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Saving social security
Lane, Edward - 2024
implications for inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581826
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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare
Sarpça, Sinan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2010
A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273664
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Welfare in Experimental News Markets
Albertazzi, Andrea; Ploner, Matteo; Vaccari, Federico - 2022
We perform a controlled experiment to study the welfare effects of competition in a strategic communication environment … misreporting costs. As a result, competition between senders reduces the total welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470532
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Dynamic inconsistency, commitment, and welfare in strategic settings
Ivanov, Asen - 2023
The choices of a dynamically inconsistent individual depend on whether she commits to consumption ahead of time or chooses consumption in the moment. In individual-choice settings, it is normatively ambiguous whether such an individual's choices with commitment or in the moment are "better"....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480355
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Welfare impact of broadening VAT by exempting local food markets: The case of Bangladesh
Levin, Jörgen; Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2014
goods especially food is exempted from VAT as low income households spend a high share of income on food. The contribution … of this study is to analyze the income distribution and welfare impact of VAT reform when the food sectors are divided … market food commodities provides the best welfare and distributional impact. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654400
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396721
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The incidence of cash for clunkers: An analysis of the 2009 car scrappage scheme in Germany
Kaul, Ashok; Pfeifer, Gregor; Witte, Stefan - 2012
Governments all over the world have invested tens of billions of dollars in car scrappage programs to fuel the economy in 2009. We investigate the German case using a unique micro transaction dataset covering the years 2007 to 2010. Our focus is on the incidence of the subsidy, i.e., we ask how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316840
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Happy times: Identification from ordered response data
Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2020
Surveys are an important tool in economics and in the social sciences more broadly. However, methods used to analyse ordinal survey data (e.g., ordered probit) rely on strong and often unjustified distributional assumptions. In this paper, we propose using survey response times to solve that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420683
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Subjective and physiological measures of well-being: an exploratory analysis using birth-cohort data
Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2017
We use a rich longitudinal data set following a cohort of Swedish women from age 10 to 49 to analyse the effects of birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol. Employment and marital status are important adult...
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New ways to measure well-being? A first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures
Andrén, Daniela; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2019
Our study is, to our knowledge, the first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures of well-being. Using a rich longitudinal data from the mothers pregnancy until adulthood for a birth cohort of children who attended school in Örebro during the 1960s, we analyse in a first step how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654441