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Does the expansion of public long-term care funding affect savings behaviour?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2016
of long-term care subsidies on savings is far from clear. In this paper we take advantage of a policy intervention to … study the effect on savings and savings behaviour of the progressive introduction of a public long-term care subsidy … Spanish old-age dependants to obtain care support, and was orthogonal to household savings. We draw on a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547941
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The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation : Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Costa-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - 2021
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is currently implemented by more than seventy countries, yet we do not have a clear knowledge of how it affects individuals’ welfare. Using a regression discontinuity design combined with a differences-in-differences approach, we find that the Spring DST causes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218293
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The welfare effects of time reallocation: evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Costa-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - 2021
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is currently implemented by more than seventy countries, yet we do not have a clear knowledge of how it affects individuals' welfare. Using a regression discontinuity design combined with a differences-in-differences approach, we find that the Spring DST causes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592983
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The welfare effects of time reallocation : evidence from daylight saving time
Costa-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - 2021
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is currently implemented by more than seventy countries, yet we do not have a clear knowledge of how it affects individuals’ welfare. Using a regression discontinuity design combined with a differences-in-differences approach, we find that the Spring DST causes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597854
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Does the expansion of public long-term care funding affect saving behaviour?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 38 (2017) 3, pp. 417-443
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791923
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The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior
Costa-Font, Joan - 2020
countries. One hypothesis is that savings respond to cultural specific social norms. A seminal paper in economics (1) however … did not find any effect of culture on savings. We revisit this evidence using a novel dataset, which allows us to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840458
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The welfare effects of time reallocation : evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Costa-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - In: Economica 91 (2024) 362, pp. 547-568
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533806
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The social value of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: willingness to pay estimates from four Western countries
Costa-Font, Joan; Rudisill, Caroline; Harrison, Sayward; … - 2021
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a vaccine exceeds its market value. This paper estimates the willingness to pay (WTP) for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581482
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How does exposure to Covid-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?
Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021
We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the population in each country. Comparing levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603145
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How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?
Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2021
We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the population in each country. Comparing levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215672