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Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health : Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus

Brunner, Beatrice - 2011

We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, creating the opportunity for prospective parents to (re-)schedule conceptions accordingly. We find...

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Retirement Choice Simulation in Household Settings with Heterogeneous Pension Plans

Li, Jinjing - 2011

of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … of the model adapts a collective modelling approach, where the intra-household bargaining is considered. We further … reform on household retirement behaviours. The paper, in addition, applies the model to assess individual budgetary …

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Asymmetric Incentives in Subsidies : Evidence from a Large-Scale Electricity Rebate Program

Ito, Koichiro - 2013

a financial reward for energy conservation. Using household-level panel data from administrative records, I find …

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Information Provision, Market Incentives, and Household Electricity Consumption : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Trial

Martin, Steve - 2015

Time-of-use (TOU) pricing for electricity is an effective means to allocate electricity, though regulators are increasingly employing non-market strategies to provide information and induce conservation. We evaluate a large-scale field trial in which households facing TOU pricing were given an...

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Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials

Foged, Mette - 2016

household earnings potential is disproportionally due to one partner, and families react equally strongly to a male and a female …

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The assessment of government incentives on savings, Hungary 2006-2019

Czeczeli, Vivien; Kutasi, Gábor; Szabó, Eszter - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 71 (2021) 4, pp. 569-585

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Incentives for conservation in Tigray, Ethiopia : findings from a household survey

Hagos, Fitsum; Holden, Stein Terje - 2017 - Reprint 2017

, attitudes and perceptions, household characteristics and socio-economic status, access to credit, and farm inputs, tenurial …

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Household Water Savings and Response to Dynamic Incentives Under Nonlinear Pricing

Li, Li; Jeuland, Marc - 2022

prices set according to annual cumulative consumption and a bimonthly billing cycle. Analyzing data from a household survey …

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The Effect of Benefits Level on Take-Up Rates : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dahan, Momi - 2013

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment to study the effect of social benefits level on take-up rates. We find that households who are eligible for double benefits (twins) have much higher take-up rate - up to double - as compared to a control group of households. Our estimated effect of...

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The consequences of not having to buy an annuity

Blake, David P. - 2020

In his Budget speech on 19 March 2014, the UK Chancellor announced the biggest change in pension policy in 100 years: ‘Pensioners will have complete freedom to draw down as much or as little of their pension pot as they want, any time they want. No caps. No drawdown limit. Let me be clear. No...

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