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Microeconomic consequences of urban sprawl : a quasi-experimental research on household budgets in Poland
Lityński, Piotr - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 1, pp. 248-268
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Mutations urbaines, mutations démographiques. Contribution à l'explication de la déprise démographique des villes-centres
Rérat, Patrick - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2006) 5, pp. 725-750
The new modalities of urbanisation have resulted among others in a phenomenon of sprawl and of population … households, we can get a precise grasp of the nature of this demographic loss. The fact that the city saw during the same time …-span an increase of 2 000 households leads us to reject the hypotheses related to the destruction of dwellings, to the …
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How Full Is the tank? – Insights on Short-run Fuel Price Reactions from German Travel Diary Data
Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2013
We provide evidence that motorists respond to short-run fluctuations in fuel prices at the gas pump and not on the road. Employing variants of censored panel regression to control for unobserved heterogeneity and censoring of the dependent variable, we find that the fuel price has a large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292372
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2005
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … differ from pre- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies … that re-enforce their vulnerability. Households choose between market and non-market forms of exchange and even exit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295960
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335403
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Foreign Currency Borrowing: The Case of Hungary
Pellényi, Gábor; Bilek, Péter - 2009
We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335558
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Impact of changes in excise duties on households in the Czech Republic
Janský, Petr - 2014
Republic. Reforms of excise duties change the prices of goods, a change to which households respond by adjusting their … individual households to create a microeconomic simulation model that enables me to simulate the impact of changes in excise … duties on households' demands. I show the distributional impact of current excise duties and then I simulate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340638
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Determinantes da taxa de poupança das famílias Brasileiras: Evidência microeconômica com as POFS 2002-2003 e 2008-2009
da Silveira, Marcos Antonio Coutinho; Moreira, Ajax … - 2015
With data from the Household Budget Survey of 2008-2009, the study investigates the demographic and socioeconomic determinants of saving rate of Brazilian families in the recent past. The main results are consistent with the predictions of the theory of life / permanent income cycle, properly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372143
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Residential energy use and the relevance of changes in household circumstances
Longhi, Simonetta - 2014
We use a panel of UK households to analyse the impact that various individual, household and dwelling characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396826
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Parent's Education , School-Age Children, and Household Location in American Cities
Sander, William; Testa, William - 2013
The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...
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