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Statistical Analysis of Choice Experiments and Surveys
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Measures of households' past behavior, their expectations with respect to future events and contingencies, and their intentions with respect to future behavior are frequently collected using household surveys. These questions ...
International Health Economics Association Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
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Time Out for Childcare: Signalling and Earnings Rebound Effects for Men and Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1996-09)
The wage cost of time out of the labor force for childcare is important in order to understand the functioning of labor markets and for public policy. This paper reviews the literature and identifies several limitations. ...
Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
Economists have argued that obesity may lead to worse labor market outcomes, especially for women. Empirical methods to test this hypothesis have not thus far adequately controlled for the endogeneity of obesity. We use ...
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 ...
Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-03)
Employer health insurance mandates form the basis of many health care reform proposals. Proponents make the case that they will increase insurance, while opponents raise the concern that low-wage workers will see offsetting ...
The effect of demand uncertainty on a precommitted monopoly price
(Elsevier, 1989)
Under plausible conditions on the shape of a monopolist's or a monopolistic competitor's cost function, multiplicative demand uncertainty is shown to raise the firm's optimal precommitted price. It is argued that this ...