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Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by procurement mode following a railway reform in Germany to...
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This paper presents a model of strategic locational choice by duopolistic firms in an urban area where consumer locations are endogenous and where a public facility is exogenously fixed. A welfare analysis taking their strategic behaviour into account is conducted. It is shown that the firms'...
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Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...
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This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual … incorporating welfare receipt into a theoretical model of the cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes across generations …. Consistent with the predictions of our model, we find that young people’s attitudes towards work and welfare are shaped by …
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interventions designed to change attitudes. We analyze anti-Semitic attitudes drawing on individual-level survey results from … between 1890 and 1933 are powerful predictors of anti-Jewish attitudes today. There is evidence that transmission takes place …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
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individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in … entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …
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this paper we analyze the factors that affect a direct measure of individual attitudes towards skilled migration, focusing …
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about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards …
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