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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services
Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as … compares how household characteristics like income, household size, rural/urban location and education level differ in their … association with home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions. We find that the association between household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959530
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703033
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Fathers' Leave, Fathers' Involvement and Child Development: Are They Related? Evidence from Four OECD Countries
Huerta, Maria del Carmen; Adema, Willem; Baxter, Jennifer; … - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2013
, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are ‘more involved’ perform better during the early years than their peers … States — to describe how leave policies may influence father’s behaviours when children are young and whether their … to carry out childcare related activities when children are young. This study finds some evidence that children with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277045
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The unfinished body: The medical and social reshaping of disabled young bodies
McLaughlin, Janice; Coleman-Fountain, Edmund - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 76-84
Stories about disability are heavily shaped by the narratives offered by medicine and society. Those narratives enact an ‘anomalous’ body that is constructed as distant from the norm and therefore ‘damaged’ but also fixable. In this paper we explore how such narratives, and the practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076601
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Alternative explanations of online repurchasing behavioral intentions: A comparison study of Korean and UK young customers
Ha, H; Muthaly, S; Akamavi, R - 2010
Purpose: This study sets out to employ a cross-cultural perspective to explore alternative explanations in the development of the online repurchase intentions model. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed constructs of alternative models deal with key online consumer behavior variables such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481610
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Through Thick and Thin: How Fair Trade Consumers Have Reacted to the Global Economic Recession
Bondy, Tierney; Talwar, Vishal - In: Journal of Business Ethics 101 (2011) 3, pp. 365-383
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Transportation oil demand, consumer preferences and asymmetric prices
Broadstock, David C.; Collins, Alan; Hunt, Lester C. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) November, pp. 528-536
fuel demand, make explicit the impact of the underlying energy demand trend, and disaggregate the estimation for gasoline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610860
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Determinants of consumer attitudes and purchase intentions with regard to genetically modified foods - Results of a cross-national survey
Bredahl, Lone - Institut for Marketing og Organisation, Aarhus Universitet - 2000
1. Previous research has shown consumers to be highly sceptical towards genetic modification in food production. So far, however, little research has tried to explain how consumers form attitudes and make decisions with regard to genetically modified foods. <p> 2. The paper presents the results of...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802351
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Relative indicators of default risk among UK residential mortgages
Mitropoulos, Atanasios; Zaidi, Rida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We have assembled a unique loan-level performance dataset for mortgages originated in the UK to study the differences in default likelihood between loans of varying borrower and loan characteristics. We can broadly confirm the relevance of most commonly known riskfactors and find that most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497697
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Communicating about the risks and benefits of genetically modified foods. Effects of different information strategies
Frewer, Lynn; Scholderer, Joachim; Downs, Clive; … - Institut for Marketing og Organisation, Aarhus Universitet - 2000
The research reported here aimed to investigate the effects of different types of information about genetically modified foods on both consumer attitudes towards genetic modification and their tendency to choose genetically modified products (compared to more traditionally manufactured...
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