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We provide an in-depth theoretical discussion about the differences between individual-specific latent constructs (representing attitudes, for example, but also other characteristics such as values or personality traits) and alternative-specific latent constructs (that may represent perceptions) affecting the choice-making process of individuals; we also carry out an empirical exercise to analyze their ...
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Transportation : Planning, Policy, Research, Practice
44 (2017), 3, S. 475-493
| Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Uwe Kunert, Heike Link, Juan de Dios Ortúzar
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The paper aims at measuring the general state intervention in rental housing market in Germany from 1913 through 2015. Four policy classes are considered: Incentives for social housing, tenant protection, housing rationing, and rent controls. Based on a legislation analysis, for each class an index measuring the degree of regulation is constructed. The indices reflect dramatic increases in regulations ...
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Urban Research and Practice
10 (2017), 3, S. 267-328
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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This paper complements evidence on the Allais paradox from advanced countries and educated people by a novel investigation in a poor rural area. The share of Allais-type behavior is indeed high and related to indicators of “lacking ability,” such as poor education, unemployment, and little financial sophistication. Based on prospective reference theory, we extend these characteristics by biased processing ...
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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
54 (2017), 2, S. 129-156
| Tabea Herrmann, Olaf Hübner, Lukas Menkhoff, Ulrich Schmidt
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In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing thelabor supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the sametime, these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This inturn reduces the potential of in-work support to address the joint objectives of higher employmentand lower ...
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Contemporary Economics
11 (2017), 2, S. 161-170
| Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck, Katharina Wrohlich
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Based on large representative German household survey data, we compare incomes of the self-employed with those of paid employees. We find that the entrepreneurial income gap is largest for those holding a tertiary degree, but in two directions: positive for employers (self-employed with further employees) and negative for solo entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs holding a tertiary degree also face the greatest ...
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Small Business Economics
49 (2017), 2, S. 251–272
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos
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While cash housing benefits are generally included in household disposable income, the effect of social housing is not accounted for. This may provide a misleading picture of the impact of overall housing policies on inequality and poverty, as countries use different policies to help households meet their housing expenses. In this article, we present the first comprehensive study of the impact of in-kind ...
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Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
32 (2017), 2, S. 289-312
| Gerlinde Verbist, Markus M. Grabka
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This paper provides evidence on the question of who bears the burden of social security contributions (SSC) in Germany over a long-term horizon. Following Alvaredo et al. (De Econ, 2017) we exploit kinks in the budget set generated by a drop in the marginal SSC rate at earnings caps for health and long-term care insurance. These concave kinks lead to discontinuities in the distributions of gross earnings, ...
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De Economist
165 (2017), 2, S. 165-179
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann
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We use a tailor-made survey on a Swedish sample to investigate how individuals' relative income affects their demand for redistribution. We first document that a majority misperceive their position in the income distribution and believe that they are poorer, relative to others, than they actually are. We then inform a subsample about their true relative income and find that individuals who are richer ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
99 (2017), 2, S. 201-212
| Mounir Karadja, Johanna Mollerstrom, David Seim
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This paper provides new evidence on the long- and medium-term impact of extreme weather events on education. Our focus is on Mongolia, where two extremely severe winters caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with information on households' pre-shock location, combined with historic district-level livestock census data and climate data. Our econometric strategy exploits exogenous ...
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Journal of Population Economics
30 (2017), 2, S. 433-472
| Valeria Groppo, Kati Krähnert
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Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help explain individual differences in tournament entry. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured as salivary cortisol) to ...
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Experimental Economics
20 (2017), 2, S. 506-530
| Thomas Buser, Anna Dreber, Johanna Mollerstrom