[PDF] Top 20 Empirical essays in the economics of health, housing, and the environment

... The third wave of centres forms the basis of much of the empirical work that follows. Following the 2007 Darzi report, the Department of Health set up a new policy known as Equitable Access to Primary Care ... See full document

... first empirical test of the role of sentiment in the run-up and crash of housing prices that instigated the great financial crisis of ...local housing markets by quantifying the positive and negative ... See full document

... public economics, the production efficiency theorem (Diamond & Mir- rlees 1971), states that tax systems should leave production undistorted even in second- best ...an environment with perfect tax ... See full document

... all health habits can be used as an instrument for two ...some health habits have consumption as well as investment ...some health habits such as heavy drinking or drug abuse would be unsuitable as ... See full document

... risks in year t together and use the distribution of actual expenditures from year t+1 to generate beliefs about expenditure risk at the time the insurance plan was chosen in year t. Each person in the same risk group is ... See full document

... the empirical speci…ca- tions and highlights the fact that incidence depends on the degree of competition in the market as well as ...the health costs of the sicker enrollees in addition to providing ... See full document

... the housing market and richness of our data allow us to address several empirical concerns that plague previous contagion-related ...recent housing cycle which saw substantial variation across ... See full document

... social housing boundary; variation in the relative proportions of social and non-social tenants does not, except in very small clusters of social ...further empirical support: including the Ward-proportion ... See full document

... This paper advances the current RHI literature by using true duration analysis techniques to identify the effect of RHI on career job disengagement for a cohort of individuals who were aged 50-60 in 1992. ... See full document

... The empirical strategy presented above attempts to deal with differences in mobility due to the sorting of different households across neighbourhoods of different ...the empirical approach taken in this ... See full document

... This chapter explores whether the length of commuting time can affect a worker’s effort in the workplace. For most workers, commuting is an unavoidable daily activity to connect housing and labour markets and ... See full document

... Urban economics also tackles urban questions, using economic theory and applied economic methods to study cities and their ...policy. Housing and land markets are key as they reveal differences across ... See full document

... There is widespread concern that corporate boards do not su¢ ciently punish chief executive o¢ cers (CEOs) for poor performance. This may be caused by CEO entrenchment where boards retain chief executives who ... See full document

... 00001t tif The London School of Economics and Political Science THREE ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Ricardo Ribeiro Dissertation submitted to the Department of Economics of the London Sc[.] ... See full document

... Essays in Agricultural Economics Appendices Francisco Pereira Fontes A thesis submitted to the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics and Political Science for the d[.] ... See full document

... recent empirical evidence, a number of gaps remain in this ...Agricultural Economics does not convincingly answer why a positive relationship ...our empirical specification, explained in section ... See full document

... In table: 7, in Hypothesis (2), the inhabitants in public housing’s local communities are merged in one social unit, by using the Chi-square test has shown statistical significance and the hypotheses were realized, for ... See full document

... The research presented in this thesis offers considerable scope for future developments. Chapter 1 of this thesis contributes to a growing literature, which tries to reconcile the high frequency of price changes at the ... See full document

... with housing that usually operate in the pri- vate sector and less often apply for public ...the housing industry via hotel infrastructure development, so time effects across branches are likely to be ... See full document

... Before presenting the ex-post risk coping strategies, let us consider for a moment the challenge of preserving the environment in developed countries. Many OECD countries have set up agri- environmental schemes ... See full document