We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...

We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...

This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...

This thesis consists of three independent essays, unified by the common theme of the distributional impacts of government.The first paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for pharmaceuticals amongst high-income older people in Australia. It exploits a natural experiment by which some...

Private health insurance premiums in Australia are regulated by the Commonwealth Government. Premium increases often well exceed the national consumer price index, which suggests that consumers are not receiving value for money for health insurance products. The current regulatory framework does...

This paper investigates the impact of USDA crop production reports in corn andsoybean futures markets. The analysis is based on all corn and soybean production reportsreleased over 1970-2006. The empirical analysis compares the typical OLS eventstudy approach to the new Identification by...

The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...

Understanding the contribution of marketing to economic and social outcomes is fundamental to broadening the focus of marketing. The authors develop a comprehensive model that integrates the impact of service quality and service satisfaction on both economic and societal outcomes. The model is...

Studies of productivity often ignore measurement error and fail to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors in adjusting for the environment. This failure may misguide managerial decisions on benchmarking, ranking, and remuneration. For example, common relative efficiency techniques...

This study examined whether the effectiveness of human resource management (HRM)practices is contingent on organizational climate and competitive strategy The concepts of internol and external fit suggest that the positive relationship between HRM and subsequent productivity will be stronger for...