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Who Are Afraid of Losing Their Jobs to Artificial Intelligence and Robots? Evidence from a Survey
Morikawa, Masayuki - 2017
This study, using original survey data of 10,000 individuals, analyzes the possible impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics on employment. The first interest of this study is to ascertain, from the viewpoint of workers, what types of worker characteristics are associated with the...
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Predicting the effects of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in a household production model
Bordignon, Massimo; Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue - 2018
Index (EASI) demand system on a data set built by merging the most recent waves of the US consumer expenditure and time use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059367
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A Reconsideration of the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax in a Household Production Model
Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018
Index (EASI) demand system on a data set built by merging the most recent waves of the US consumer expenditure and time use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872144
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Differences in US-German Time-Allocation: Why Do Americans Work Longer Hours than Germans?
Schettkat, Ronald - 2003
The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
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Married with children: A collective labor supply model with detailed time use and intrahousehold expenditure information
Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2010
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
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Valuation of Health Inputs and Convenience in New Products
Nordström, Jonas - 2013
The prevalence of illnesses related to the modern diet and a more sedentary lifestyle has increased markedly over the last few decades. There is therefore a need for effective strategies to promote health and to reduce the prevalence of diet-related diseases. In this paper, we study the...
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Demand analysis with partially observed prices
Crawford, Ian; Polisson, Matthew - 2015
In empirical demand, industrial organization, and labor economics, prices are often unobserved or unobservable since …-consistent demand analysis remains feasible in the presence of partially observed prices, and hence partially observed implied budget …
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Food security and household consumption patterns in Slovakia
Rizov, Marian; Cupak, Andrej; Pokrivcak, Jan - 2014
consumed by estimating food demand system and diet diversity demand models using household budget survey data over the period … 2004 - 2010. In most samples demand for meat and fish and fruits and vegetables is expenditure and own-price elastic. On …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419204
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Goods versus characteristics: Dimension reduction and revealed preference
Polisson, Matthew - 2012
This paper compares the goods and characteristics models of the consumer within a non-parametric revealed preference framework. Of primary interest is to make a comparison on the basis of predictive success that takes into account dimension reduction. This allows us to nonparametrically identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331043
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The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda
Andalón, Mabel; Gibson, John - 2017
own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between −1.0 and −1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity … demand is just −0.2 to −0.3, so tax-induced soda price increases might cut average weights by less than one pound, which is …
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