Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey Data [PDF]
This paper uses a seminonparametric model and Consumer Expenditure Survey data to estimate life cycle profiles of consumption, controlling for demographics, cohort and time e.ects. In addition to documenting profiles for total and nondurable consumption,
Dirk Krueger, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
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Energy Elasticities and the Rebound Effect: A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis [PDF]
, 2016 In diesem Forschungsprojekt werden aktuelle Preis- und Einkommenselastizitäten für Energie und andere Produktionsfaktoren bzw. Konsumgütergruppen in der Schweiz geschätzt. Im Weiteren wird der Rebound-Effekt für den privaten Transport untersucht.
Deininger, Sebastian +2 more
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Synchronise Business Cycles? Results from a Panel Approach [PDF]
, 2013 A considerable degree of business cycle synchronization is key to a successful operating currency union. The European Monetary Union as well as many other countries strives to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) because of its reputation as being ...
Busl, Claudia, Kappler, Marcus
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Aging, generational shifts, and energy consumption in urban China. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Han X, Wei C, Cao GY.
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Who gains from trade protection in Ghana: A household-level analysis? [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric studies of the impact of trade protection on household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99 ...
Ackah, Charles +2 more
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Net foreign assets, productivity and real exchange rates in constrained economies [PDF]
, 2010 Empirical evidence suggests that real exchange rates (RER) behave differently in developed and developing countries. We develop an overlapping generations two-sector exogenous growth model in which RER determination may depend on the country's capacity ...
Christopoulos, Dimitris K. +2 more
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Did Implementing Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) of 1990 Improve Diet? [PDF]
Nutrition labeling, in the words of the then FDA commissioner, David Kessler, was to “help millions of Americans make more informed, healthier choices.” Although the NLEA primarily focused on standardizing the nutrition facts label, its implementation ...
Asirvatham, Jebaraj +2 more
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The Economics and Productivity of US Cow-Calf Production [PDF]
We explore US beef cow-calf production in 2018 and estimate net returns, returns to scale, and technical efficiency associated with backgrounding versus nonbackgrounding by size and production system.
Leibold, Kelvin L. +3 more
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Effect of price on the decision to experiment with cigarette smoking among Gambian children: a survival analysis using the Gambia 2017 Global Youth Tobacco Survey data. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Dare C +5 more
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Residential Property Prices in a Sub-Market of South Africa: Separating Real Growth from Attribute Growth [PDF]
This paper analyses the South African residential housing market using hedonic price theory. It builds and tests pooled OLS, fixed effects OLS, pseudo-panel and quantile regression models.
Dieter von Fintel, Michael Els
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