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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
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Turnover and Price in the Housing Market: Causation, Association or Independence?
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per - 2002
We give general conditions for the data generating process to facilitate the testing of structural dependence of turnover on the average (or median) price in the homogenous housing market. Furthermore, the implications of aggregation over sub-markets is studied. A plausible explanation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321828
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The headmaster ritual: The importance of management for school outcomes
Böhlmark, Anders; Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2012
The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide is often … outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data set that allows us to track individual principals as they move between … schools. We find that individual principals have a substantive impact on school policies, working conditions and student …
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Agglomeration in the European automobile supplier industry
Klier, Thomas; McMillen, Dan - 2013
Motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts production plants tend to exhibit a strong degree of agglomeration. This paper estimates a spatial model utilizing detailed plant-level data that is pooled across seven countries in Europe. The paper makes several contributions. First, we assemble a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352174
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The urban density premium across establishments
Faberman, R. Jason; Freedman, Matthew - 2013
We use longitudinal micro data to estimate the urban density premium for U.S. establishments, controlling for observed establishment characteristics and dynamic establishment behavior. We find that a doubling of urban density increases the average earnings of establishments by between 6 and 10...
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How small are small markets? Location choice and geographical market size for child care services
Pennerstorfer, Astrid; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2018
In this article we propose an innovative way of delineating geographical markets based on easily accessible data. We apply this concept for the day care industry and investigate providers' location choices relative to local market characteristics to evaluate the widespread presumption that local...
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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration
Gallo, Fredrik - 2005
We analyse a two-stage location-quantity game with many firms and two regions. We show that the firms will never agglomerate in the same location if transportation is costly between the regions. We also analyse the effects of differences in market size and economic integration on the allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208479
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Location, location, location!: A quality-adjusted rent index for the Oslo office market
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Hagen, Marius - 2020
In this paper, we construct a quality-adjusted rent index for the office market in Oslo. Commonly used rent indices are based on average developments or expert opinions. Such indices often suffer from compositional biases or low data coverage. Using detailed data from more than 16,000 rental...
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Racial disparities in mortgage lending: New evidence based on processing time
Wei, Bin; Zhao, Feng - 2022
This paper examines racial disparities in mortgage processing time prior to the global financial crisis. We find that Black borrowers are underrepresented and experience a longer processing time than White borrowers among the mortgages securitized by government-sponsored enterprises. At the same...
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The principle of minimum differentiation revisited: Return of the median voter
Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Tanimura, Emily; Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2016
We study a linear location model (Hotelling, 1929) in which n (with n ≥ 2) boundedly rational players follow (noisy) myopic best-reply behavior. We show through numerical and mathematical analysis that such players spend almost all the time clustered together near the center, re-establishing...
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