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Respondent-driven sampling is a network sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (for example, drug users, men who have sex with men, people with HIV). Similarly to snowball sampling, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends. The recruiting process repeats iteratively, thereby forming long referral chains. Unlike in snowball sampling, ...
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The Stata Journal
12 (2012), 1, S. 72-93
| Matthias Schonlau, Elisabeth Liebau
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This paper presents the application of a mechanism that provides incentives to promote transmission network expansion in the electricity system of the Ontario province. Such mechanism combines a merchant approach with a regulatory approach. It is based on the rebalancing of a two-part tariff within the framework of a wholesale electricity market with nodal pricing. The expansion of the network is carried ...
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Economía Mexicana
21 (2012), 1, S. 133-173
| Juan Rosellón, Juan Tregear, Eric Zenón
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Electricity transmission has become the pivotal industry segment for electricity restructuring. Yet, little is known about the shape of transmission cost functions. Reasons for this can be a lack of consensus about the definition of transmission output and the complexitity of the relationship between optimal grid expansion and output expansion. Knowledge of transmission cost functions could help firms ...
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The Energy Journal
33 (2012), 1, S. 131-160
| Juan Rosellón, Ingo Vogelsang, Hannes Weigt
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Aggregated consideration of both climate and socio-economic change in a coarse spatial resolution is a central feature for scenario development in global change research. Downscaling of the supposed aggregated changes is a necessary prerequisite for the assessments of global change at the regional scale. The present paper describes the method and results of an approach to develop and to apply scenarios ...
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Regional Environmental Change
12 (2012), 1, S. 69-80
| Jürgen Blazejczak, Martin Gornig, Volkmar Hartje
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Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behaviour. In this article, we investigate to what extent ethnicity affects Ukrainian labour market outcomes. Using microdata from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and increasing labour market divide between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians ...
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Economics of Transition
20 (2012), 1, S. 1-35
| Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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This paper examines the impact of outdoor pollution and parental smoking on children's health from birth until the age of three years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution levels. These data were provided by the Federal Environment Agency and cover theyears 2002-2007. Our work makes two important contributions. First, we ...
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Journal of Health Economics
31 (2012), 1, S. 180-196
| Katja Coneus, C. Katharina Spieß
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Children's physical health problems have clear and lasting impacts on a variety of later life outcomes, as a growing body of research has shown. Furthermore, problems such as obesity, motor impairment, and chronic diseases entail high social costs, particularly when childhood health problems carry over into adulthood. This study examines intergenerational relationships between parent and child health ...
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Economics and Human Biology
10 (2012), 1, S. 89-97
| Katja Coneus, C. Katharina Spieß
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We investigate the long run relationship between private consumption, disposable income and wealth approximated by equity and house price indices for a panel of 15 industrialized countries. Consumption, income and wealth are cointegrated in their common components. The impact of house prices exceeds the effect arising from equity wealth. The long run vector is broadly in line with the life cycle permanent ...
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Portuguese Economic Journal
11 (2012), 1, S. 21-34
| Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers
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In January 2009, the German Federal Network Agency introduced incentive regulation for the electricity distribution sector based on results obtained from econometric and nonparametric benchmarking analysis. One main problem for the regulator in assigning the relative efficiency scores is unobserved firm-specific factors such as network and technological differences. Comparing the efficiency of different ...
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Empirical Economics
42 (2012), 1, S. 147-169
| Astrid Cullmann
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Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative data of applicants for medical schools in Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a small but significant reaction: The probability ...
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Economics of Education Review
31 (2012), 1, S. 155-167
| Nadja Dwenger, Johanna Storck, Katharina Wrohlich