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A conditional analysis of movers' housing responses
(Elsevier, 1990-09)
Movers' responses to the five-year trend in income prior to the move are studied using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the new Slopes-Only option in the Search program in OSIRIS. Other events around the ...
Counting Groves-Ledyard equilibria via degree theory
(Elsevier, 1983-10)
We study the Groves-Ledyard mechanism for determining optimal amounts of public goods in economies whose agents have the most general class of preferences for which a Pareto amount of public goods can be computed independently ...
The quality dimension in army retention
(Elsevier, 1990)
Despite the relatively "egalitarian" (little pay for performance) structure of military compensation, those who do better on tests of proficiency in their military occupation are likely to re-enlist t those who do worse, ...
Robbing Peter to pay Peter: The economics of local public residency requirements
(Elsevier, 1988-05)
On the effect of fiscal zoning on land and housing values
(Elsevier, 1976-01)
The note is a comment on and extension of "The Effect of Zoning on Land Value," by J. C. Ohls, R. C. Weisberg, and M. J. White. It is suggested that some of the results of that paper are very sensitive to the way in which ...
Wealth dynamics: reducing noise in panel data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-09)
Although the asset data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is of very high quality, there is sufficient noise to frustrate attempts to study saving behaviour by examining wave-to-wave change in wealth. In this ...
Long-run equilibria with borrowing constraints and altruism
(Elsevier, 1993)
This paper adapts a nonstochastic overlapping generations model to include liquidity constraints and intergenerational altruism. Existing work indicates the importance of both but often considers them separately. This paper ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...
An expectational view of consumer spending prospects
(Elsevier, 1981-06)
While the path of the economy clearly depends on a lot more than the behavior of consumers, the latter is surely one of the key influences on the former. After all, consumer spending counts for about two-thirds of the total ...
Democratic Institutions and Economic Reform: the Polish Case
(1998-04-01)
Analysis of the economic transformation of the Polish economy and of the 1993 elections for Parliament suggest that it is possible to proceed with pro-market and democratic reforms simultaneously. As demonstrated by the ...