Using several centuries of data on house prices from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and seven key house price determinants, this paper shows that the historically recent increases in house prices over the past decades can be explained by 1) the increasing effect of interest rates and income on...

Final energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Iran increased by 67% and 81% between 2001 and 2011, respectively. The question is, what factors have been the drivers of energy consumption in this time interval? In order to answer this question, we use structural decomposition analysis and index...

In this study, we explore the geographic variation in health-care spending and its driving factors in China, using a nationwide and claim-level sample of inpatients ensured under the urban basic medical insurance schemes in 2010. We show geographic variation in health-care spending is...

Labor market dualism has caused a persistent wage gap between formal and informal workers in Indonesia. This study aimed to decompose the wage difference between formal and informal workers based on cohorts in Indonesia and further analyze the factors that influence this gap. This allowed us to...