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We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns, well-being, risk aversion, and political preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but the disaster significantly increased environmental concerns among Germans. One underlying mechanism likely operated through the perceived risk of a similar ...
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Journal of Population Economics
28 (2015), 4, S. 1137-1180
| Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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This paper summarizes the state-of-the-art for assessing the value of a statistical life (VSL) as a component of the costs of road accidents. It focuses on the most popular approaches for assessing the VSL, with respect to its theoretical foundations, current state-of-research and empirical evidence. Our paper also provides a first (to our knowledge) compendium of results for the VSL based on Stated ...
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Transport Reviews
35 (2015), 4, S. 488-511
| Francisco J. Bahamonde Birke, Uwe Kunert, Heike Link
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We analyze various regulatory regimes for electricity transmission investment in the context of a power system transformation toward renewable energy. Distinctive developments of the generation mix are studied, assuming that a shift toward renewables may have temporary or permanent impacts on network congestion. We specifically analyze the relative performance of a combined merchant-regulatory price-cap ...
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The Energy Journal
36 (2015), 4, S. 105-128
| Jonas Egerer, Juan Rosellón, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Is it possible to combat global climate change through North-to-South technology transfer even without a global climate treaty? Or do carbon leakage and the rebound effect imply that it is possible to take advantage of technological improvements under the umbrella of a global arrangement only? For answering these questions two possible states of the world are discussed: one, where more energy efficient ...
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Environmental & Resource Economics
62 (2015), 4, S. 791-809
| Gunter Stephan, Georg Müller-Fürstenberger
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Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that include unique information on reported perceived deprivation with a pre-specified reference group, namely others in the same town or village. Based on a ...
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Social Indicators Research
124 (2015), 3, S. 765-783
| Veronika Bertram-Hümmer, Ghassan Baliki
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By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extends the literature, which mostly has focused on the importance of day care availability or costs. The authors provide differentiated analyses by the youngest child's age and for West and East Germany to examine moderating influences, such as work-care cultures, in ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
77 (2015), 3, S. 712-729
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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We propose an allocation rule that takes into account the importance of both players and their links and characterize it for a fixed network. Our characterization is along the lines of the characterization of the Position value for Network games by van den Nouweland and Slikker (2012). The allocation rule so defined admits multilateral interactions among the players through their links which distinguishes ...
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European Journal of Operational Research
243 (2015), 3, S. 912-920
| Surajit Borkotokey, Rajnish Kumar, Sudipta Sarangi
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Economic policies rely on demographic projections. Yet in making these projections, researchers often ignore the aspect of household formation—despite sustained trends in many industrialized countries towards smaller household units with fewer members. Over the long term, this trend is likely to reduce the benefits of sharing goods/services within households (household economies of scale) at the micro-level, ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
67 (2015), 3, S. 760-780
| Carsten Schröder, Katrin Rehdanz, Daiju Narita, Toshihiro Okubo
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Discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size that is typical for common household panels. We provide two important results for the practitioner: First, for a specification with a multivariate normal distribution for the ...
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Empirical Economics
49 (2015), 3, S. 1123-1141
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Arne Uhlendorff
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Our article contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflicts by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan between 1997 and 2009. Temperature anomalies are found to strongly affect the risk of conflict, whereas the risk is expected to magnify in a range of 24–31% in the future under a median scenario. ...
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Journal of Economic Geography
15 (2015), 3, S. 649-671
| Jean-Francois Maystadt, Margherita Calderone, Liangzhi You