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Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe
Chai, Andreas - 2010
This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...
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Marketing mit Youtube
Nufer, Gerd - 2017
Die Video-Plattform Youtube ist eine der meistbesuchten Webseiten weltweit. Youtube-Stars erreichen mit ihren Videos große Zuschauergruppen und können als Multiplikatoren für Werbebotschaften dienen. Sie sind oftmals Meinungsführer, denen hohes Vertrauen entgegengebracht wird, weshalb sie...
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Durable Purchases over the Later Life Cycle
Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas; Lührmann, Melanie - 2012
We investigate the life cycle patterns of households’spending on medium value durables. We use panel data on expenditures on appliances and consumer electronics the British Household Panel Study between 1997 and 2008. In cross section, expenditures for appliances and consumer electronics...
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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 - 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...
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De-biasing electric vehicle adoption with personalized nudging
Bernardic, Ursa; Cerruti, Davide; Filippini, Massimo; … - 2024
Replacing combustion engine vehicles with battery electric vehicles (BEV) is essential to achieving climate objectives and advancing sustainable transportation, aligning with the United Nations Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. In this project, we identify three perception biases linked...
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The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as...
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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth
Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2013
In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
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The Hungarian Longitudinal Growth Study: From birth to the age of 18 years
Joubert, Kálmán; Gyenis, Gyula - 2016
This Working Paper presents the main results of the 'Hungarian Longitudinal Growth Study'. It was the first longitudinal, nationally representative research programme in Hungary that focused on children aged between birth and 18 years of age; the number of subjects was 2,984 boys and 2,701 girls...
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