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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2009

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...

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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009

Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2008

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?

Cutler, David M. - 2006

While Americans are less healthy than Europeans along some dimensions (like obesity), Americans are significantly less likely to smoke than their European counterparts. This difference emerged in the 1970s and it is biggest among the most educated. The puzzle becomes larger once we account for...

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...

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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...

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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Faber, Benjamin - 2016

Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …

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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America

Caruso, Martín - 2019

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...

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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean - 2013

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...

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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and show that ordeal mechanisms may actually have theoretically...

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