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-2004 shows that income has only a minor effect on positive subjective well-being but a large effect on negative well …
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I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
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income and the rich, as well as in rural and urban areas. The methods used are panel fixed effects instrumental variables … household welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, income, assets and poverty status. The results show large gaps between …
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Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by intratemporal nonseparability in households’...
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As previously argued, the correlation between included and omitted regressors generally causes inconsistency of standard estimators for count data models. Using a specific residual function and suitable instruments, a consistent generalized method of moments estimator can be obtained under...
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This contribution contains an international comparison of preferences. Using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE), it measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individuals’ willingness to donate to museums and...
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Using micro data on expenditure and income for 17 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, this paper presents … stylized facts on saving behavior by age, education, income and place of residence. Counterfactual saving rates are computed by … imposing the saving behavior, the population distribution or the income distribution of two benchmark economies (the United …
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respondents being unsatisfied with tap water quality because of health concerns. The expected WTP increased with income, education …
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This econometric study assesses the efficiency of the income tax credit system implemented in France in 2005 on …
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