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The gasoline price and the commuting behavior : towards sustainable modes of transport

Belloc, Ignacio; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022

This paper analyzes how gasoline price is related to the time workers in the US spend commuting by private vehicle, public transport, walking, or cycling. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2019, and collecting data on gasoline price by state and year, we find that...

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020

We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...

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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018

There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as … expectations may raise home buying probabilities among never married singles. We focus solely on the sub population called the …

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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development

Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018

The aim of this research is to build on a theory for explaining economic development in a (neoclassical) growth model … and high development regimes. It provides alternative reasons (history driven or expectations driven) why some countries … enter development trajectories with high GDP and low fertility and others experience under-performances with low GDP and …

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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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A parsimonious model of longevity, fertility, HIV transmission and development

Gori, Luca; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2018

disease. The aim of this research is twofold. First, it develops a framework for explaining economic development in a general …

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Turkish university students' self-perceptions of aging : an analysis over socio-economic dimensions

Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019

University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile …

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Inclusive recruitment? : hiring discrimination against older workers

Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment …

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The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown : first order effects on gender gaps in employment and domestic time use in India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)'s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...

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