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Browsing Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers, 1982 -- August 2011 by Title
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Back to the future - decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1998-05-11)This paper compares adversarial with cooperative industrial and trade policies in a dynamic oligopoly game in which a home and foreign firm compete in R&D and output and, because of spillovers, each firm benefits from the ...
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2000-06)Low rates of inflation have been recorded in the United States in recent years despite a decline in the unemployment rate. This phenomenon could be the result of a series of transitory shocks or of a permanent change in ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-05)
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2007-11)In a 2005 paper Kanezawa proposed a generalisation of the classic Trivers-Willard hypothesis. It was argued that as a result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which simply count the number of individuals with BMI in excess of an upper limit ignore the extent by which ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-07)This paper models the probability of 15-year-old children missing school or being late. The paper sets out to uncover the effects of family background and birth order on attendance. Looking at birth order effects allows ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-11)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-07-07)This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether education and ability are substitutes or complements in the determination of earnings. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-09)Banks are seen as having informational advantages in the market for risky securities. The competitive implications of these advantages are explored in a model of asset prices. The impact of capital adequacy requirements ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-09-07)With politician preferences over policy outcomes, the effect of a contribution cap with monetary penalties for exceeding the cap is starkly different from the case with an indifferent politician. In contrast to Kaplan ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-02)
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)While …financial incentives usually have a signifi…cant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, ...
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The causal effect of breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development : a quasi-experimental design (University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-03)Objective: To estimate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children’s cognitive skills as measured at ages 3, 5, 7 and 11. Design: An instrumental variable (IV) strategy which provides a correction method for dealing ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-03)If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males, efficient cost sharing of on-the-job training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-10-23)There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. However, these models tend to rely heavily on symmetry assumptions and assume melting iceberg ...
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