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of the natural experiment. Our results are robust to a number of specifications and sub-samples of our general sample …
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. Variation in income around the compulsory insurance threshold provides a natural experiment that we exploit to control for …
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period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … of inequality are used as treatments. Other determinants of the demand for redistribution, such as risk aversion and … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the …
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demand for car insurance. ? the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
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percent after Uber entered the New York market in May 2011, confirming that Uber is depressing taxi demand. Last, we test …In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber … rides in NYC from April to September 2014 and January to June 2015, we show that the number of Uber rides is significantly …
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A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast findings from social...
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In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
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, complemented with Airbnb data on listings and prices. We employ a difference-in-differences estimation taking advantage of the …
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Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this …
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