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The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of the development status with a model of non- random labor force participation to...
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Noise pollution is detrimental to health and to cognitive development of children. This is not only true for extreme levels of noise in the neighborhood of an airport but also to traffic noise in urban areas. Using a census of preschool children, we show that children who are exposed to...
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This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social … shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or increasing longevity, and the type of unfunded social security … provides a refinement to common policy recommendations that favor eliminating mandatory early retirement regulations in aging …
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To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
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