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Does the cause of death matter? : the effect of dread, controllability, exposure and latency on the Vsl
Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan - 2010
The Value of a Statistical Life is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. To date, the VSL used in environmental policy analyses has not been adjusted for age or the cause of death. Air pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions...
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Income and occupational choice responses of the self-employed to tax rate changes : heterogeneity across reforms and income
Bosch, Nicole; Boer, Henk-Wim de - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 58 (2019), pp. 1-20
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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
government expenditures (including Social Security and income assistance). Together, the reduction in smoking and the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884098
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The Bunching Estimator Cannot Identify the Taxable Income Elasticity
Blomquist, Soren - 2018
can get an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator … cannot identify the taxable income elasticity when the functional form of the distribution of preference heterogeneity is … unknown. We find that an observed distribution of taxable income around a kink point in a budget set can be consistent with …
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The Bunching Estimator Cannot Identify the Taxable Income Elasticity
Blomquist, Sören - 2017
an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator has … identify the taxable income elasticity when the functional form of the distribution of preference heterogeneity is unknown. We … find that an observed distribution of taxable income around a kink point or over the whole budget set can be consistent …
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Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion : A Simple Approach
Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex; List, John A. - 2021
We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this instrument, we structurally estimate a two-parameter model of preferences. Our findings indicate that ambiguity aversion is significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed....
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The effect of partial retirement on labor supply, public balances and the income distribution : evidence from a structural analysis
Tolan, Songül - 2017
mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural … pension income and provides a way to smooth consumption especially for retirees in lower income deciles in the context of an …
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Publication selection and the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life
Doucouliagos, Chris; Stanley, Tom D.; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Journal of health economics 33 (2014), pp. 67-75
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Is survival a luxury good? : income elasticity of the value per statistical life
Hammitt, James K.; Liu, Jin-tan; Liu, Jin-long - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty 65 (2022) 3, pp. 239-260
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Channels of risk sharing at micro level : savings, investments and risk aversion heterogeneity
Balli, Faruk; Pericoli, Filippo Maria; Pierucci, Eleonora - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 21 (2016) 1, pp. 90-104
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