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positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … paper shortly reviews theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence on externalities. It is found that evidence on … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …
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lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model la Becker, allowing … industry (i.e., lower entry costs) reduce the crime rate. Furthermore, whether more intense competition due to the increased …
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externalities from capital controls on investor portfolios. The analysis is structured based on information from investor interviews … expectations about future policies rather than the direct cost of the controls. This evidence of significant externalities from …
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This paper studies externalities of nationally determined cost-sharing systems, in particular coinsurance rates …
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We investigate whether working time is related to the intensity of income comparisons and relative income. Our simple theoretical model demonstrates that the effects of relative income concerns depend on whether an individual can choose contractual working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical...
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targeted areas, evidence is weak at best for positive housing externalities. Our results further indicate that fundamental …
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Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
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Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in the provision of R&D tax incentives. A growing empirical literature suggests that R&D tax incentives are instrumental in raising domestic R&D activity. In policy debates this finding is often interpreted to lend support to the notion that R&D...
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Work/Life Experiences in Responding to Diverse Job Candidates (Shane Whitfield and Jacob Wood) -- 9. Spiritual Tourism: A … Case (Dae Eui Kim and Song Soo Lim) -- 12. Coastal Tourism and Sustainability: A Case Study of East Midnapur District, West … Experience Design for Forest Hiking Systems in the Tropics Tourism (Jusak Jusak and Randy Zhu) -- 14. Spatial characteristics and …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individ-ual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity in-formation. Exploiting...
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