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Dynamic responses to smoking bans : evidence from young adults in a developing country

Steffens, Camila; Pereda, Paula Carvalho - 2024

Smoking bans have been widely implemented, despite mixed evidence on their effectiveness in reducing firsthand smoking …. This paper provides novel insights into the dynamic impacts of smoking bans in the context of a large developing country … implementation of comprehensive smoking bans in Brazilian state capitals using an event-study framework. We also leverage the …

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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

Apouey, Bénédicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2013

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Healthy, nudged, and wise : experimental evidence on the role of cost reminders in healthy decision-making

Fakir, Adnan M. S.; Bharati, Tushar - 2021

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Optimal Economic Growth Using Fiscal and Monetary Policies

Bougrine, Hassan; Rakkolainen, Teppo A. - 2009

The literature on growth theory is rich with models attempting to explain growth differences among countries. Several variables have been proposed many of which were found to be positively related to growth. However, a major problem with these models is that the factors explaining growth are...

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Der flächendeckende Mindestlohn

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2014

Die Einführung des flächendeckenden gesetzlichen Mindestlohns von 8,50 Euro ist ein großes, mit vielen sozialpolitischen Risiken verbundenes Experiment. Dieser Übersichtsartikel zeigt, dass weder die unterschiedlichen theoretischen Erklärungsmodelle noch die große Anzahl empirischer...

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"Welfare magnetism" in the EU-15? : why the EU enlargement did not start a race to the bottom of welfare states

Skupnik, Christoph - 2013

According to the "welfare magnet" hypothesis, migrants with a high likelihood of claiming benefits cluster in the most generous welfare systems. After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries can thus be expected to reduce public benefits in order...

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A note on the taxation of couples under income uncertainty

Corneo, Giacomo - 2011

An unduly neglected implication of the choice of the tax unit is its impact on the consumption risk carried by taxpayers. As compared to individual taxation, joint taxation with income splitting provides couples with more insurance against the risk of earning inability for one of the spouses. If...

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Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent

Corneo, Giacomo - 2013

This paper challanges the view that weak work norms in generous welfare states makes them economically unsustainable. I develop a dynamic model of family-transmitted values that has a laissez-faire equilibrium with strong work norms coexisting with a social-insurance equilibrium with weak work...

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Structural and cyclical effects of tax progression

Kremer, Jana; Stähler, Nikolai - 2013

In a real business cycle model with labor market frictions, we find that a more progressive tax schedule reduces structural unemployment as it fosters long-run incentives for job creation. Because there exists an optimal level of unemployment in a matching environment ("Hosios condition), tax...

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Estimating dynamic tax revenue elasticities for Germany

Koester, Gerrit; Priesmeier, Christoph - 2012

We analyse tax revenue elasticities by applying dynamic models to a new disaggregated dataset for Germany, which is adjusted for the effects of tax reforms. We estimate long-run elasticities that are substantially lower than in comparable studies for profit-related taxes and are slightly lower...

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