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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? : crime spillovers on individual well-being
Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015
less densely populated regions. In contrast to previous literature on vulnerability to crime, we find that men, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474230
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Does the burglar also disturb the neighbor? : crime spillovers on individual well-being
Avdic, Daniel; Bünnings, Christian - 2015
less densely populated regions. In contrast to previous literature on vulnerability to crime, we find that men, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487160
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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain
Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - 2022
We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254239
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A generic model for analyzing nexus issues of households ́bioenergy use
Djanibekov, Utkur; Finger, Robert; Guta, Dawit Diriba; … - 2016
Bioenergy is a major source of energy in developing countries. However, increasing demand for agricultural commodities can lead to a stronger competition for natural resources with the bioenergy production. The nexus among energy, food production and natural resource use may result in trade-offs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437899
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Gender, investment financing and credit constraints
Pelger, Ines - 2011 - 1. draft, December 2011
This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit … probability that they apply for credit is on average lower. Yet, this gender difference in the probability of credit application … is only evident when considering firms with negative or neutral sales expectations. There is no significant gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009411260
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Does a pint a day affect your child's pay? : the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes
Nilsson, Peter (contributor) - 2008
This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739713
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Longitudinal analysis of generic substitution
Dalen, Dag Morten; Locatelli Biey, Marilena; Strøm, Steinar - 2010
Using an extensive longitudinal dataset extracted from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) containing all prescriptions written in the period January 2004 to June 2007, we selected two particular drugs (chemical substances) used against cholesterol. The two brand-name products on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697144
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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn’t work : Malawi’s ITN distribution program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959196
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Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826715
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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work : Malawi's ITN distribution program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966496