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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?
Rao, Ziwei - 2021
This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by innovatively employing population policies in the early 1970s and the sex of the eldest child within families as plausibly exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show...
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Does suburbanization cause obesity?
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Ross, Amanda - 2014
In this paper, we examine the effect of suburbanization on obesity rates. Our study is an improvement over the existing … effect of highways on obesity rates within an MSA, particularly the suburbs versus the central city. To estimate the … relationship between obesity and highways, we will use county-level data on obesity rates from the Behavioral Risk Factor …
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Taxing highly processed foods: impacts on obesity and underweight in Sub-Saharan Africa
Boysen, Ole; Boysen-Urban, Kirsten; Bradford, Harvey; … - In: Visionen für eine Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik nach …, (pp. 201-219). 2019
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The impact of taxes on healthy consumer habits
Turjak, Sofija; Raič, Mario; Unukić, Ivana - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602464
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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities
Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011
levels? This paper aims to examine these issues with a particular focus on the importance of externalities. Externalities are … defined as region-specific economic effects influencing firm efficiency. These externalities can be broadly divided in the … following categories: i) urbanization economies which relate to diversity and density (Jacobs externalities), ii) localization …
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …
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Renewable energy and negative externalities : the effect of wind turbines on house prices
Droes, Martijn I.; Koster, Hans - 2014 - This version: 30 June 2014
SUMMARY - In many countries, wind turbines are constructed as part of a strategy to reduce fossil fuel dependence. In this paper, we measure the external effect of wind turbines on the transaction prices of nearby properties. Using a unique transaction price dataset covering the period 1985-2011...
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R&D-persistency, metropolitan externalities and productivity
Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - 2010
Firms display persistent differences as regards both internal and external characteristics, and these differences correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness. This paper focuses on one internal characteristic and...
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Direct compensation and risk management : a key study from the insurance sector
Gamba, Valter; Venuti, Francesco; Forliano, Canio; … - 2019
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Infrastructure gap in South Asia : inequality of access to infrastructure services
Biller, Dan; Andrés, Luis; Dappe, Matías Herrera - 2014
The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare and the quality of life is clear. Yet the South Asia region's rates of access to...
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