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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2008
skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269004
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Back to the future: Decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274666
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Equilibrium simulation with microeconometric models: A new procedure with an application to income support policies
Colombino, Ugo - 2012
-time jobs). The most common use of these models is the simulation of tax-transfer reforms. The simulation is usually interpreted … simulation procedure, however, typically keeps fixed the estimated alternative-specific constants. In this note we argue that …-specific constants leads to the development of a simulation procedure consistent with the comparative statics interpretation. The …
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Testing for nonparametric identification of causal effects in the presence of a quasi-instrument
DeLuna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - 2012
power. We perform a simulation study and apply the results to a case study where the interest lies in evaluating the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284025
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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data: Evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - 2012
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291346
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The Understated ‘Housing Shortage’ in the United States
Corinth, Kevin; Dante, Hugo - 2022
Following popular discourse, we abuse economic terminology by defining the “housing shortage” in the United States as the difference between the number of homes that would be built in the absence of supply constraints and the actual number of homes. The magnitude of the housing shortage is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351986
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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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The costs of agglomeration: Land prices in French cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291364
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766379
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Infrastructure's Imprint: Metro Proximity and Property Development Dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil
Grimaldi, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Zimmermann, Beatrice - 2024
How does the proximity to a metro station affect urban development in Latin America? While the literature assessing the causal impacts of transportation infrastructure has grown in recent years, only a few papers have focused on the effects of metro systems in Latin America and the Caribbean...
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