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employment, health and long-term care which are core policy fields within the welfare state, housing and mobility as important …
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This paper surveys the recent literature on the theory of macroeconomic policy. We study the effect of various incentive constraints on the policy making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and divided government. The survey is organized in three...
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …
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This chapter focuses on neighborhood effects in housing markets. Households in effect choose neighborhood effects, or … priced by housing markets and be capitalized into housing values and rents. The chapter focuses on models that are … dimensionality. The chapter examines neighborhood choice, with endogenous and contextual neighborhood effects, and housing demand …
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Perceptions of economic trends and growth rates around the world over the past two decades, especially in advanced economies, suggests that the world is in a period of low growth without external stimulus delivered via speculative activities in the financial markets or fiscal stimulus. But is...
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This paper analyses the influence of religious differences amongst 10 villages on the remittance determinants and their socioeconomic impacts in remittance-receiving households in rural Bangladesh. Using micro-economic data from a survey conducted in 2013, multivariate analysis was carried out...
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are increasingly devolving financial responsibility for life-changing decisions such as education and retirement for … crowdfunding, Block chain [Bitcoin], Ven and advancements in reforming the education system is shifting cultural behavior as it …
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