[PDF] Top 20 Hener, Timo (2012): Empirical essays on the economics of the family. Dissertation, LMU München: Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät

... The predictions are then investigated in an empirical analysis. We use rare child preference data to distinguish between couples with concordant and discordant preferences and test whether bargaining power has ... See full document

... We also contribute to the literature that analyses local labour market effects of technological change and digitisation. For example, Acemoglu and Restrepo [2017] investigate the effect of robot usage on local industrial ... See full document

... Since Akerlof (1970) the notion of asymmetric information, comprising adverse selection and moral hazard, has been explored at a rapid pace. At the same time people observed a wide gap between the theoretical development ... See full document

... The underlying intuition is that maintaining at least some degree of uncertainty about the technology used may reduce the probability of facing a consumer boycott. And indeed, acquisition of verifiable information on ... See full document

... provide empirical evidence for a relevant aspect of institutional choice in social dilemmas that has always been implemented exogenously so far and, thus, preferences over different strengths could hitherto not be ... See full document

... this dissertation, namely the study of other-regarding concerns, ...of empirical evidence that encompass a ”social“ element in the preference structure of an economic ... See full document

... Ethnic favoritism has become an intensely studied phenomenon in the economic analysis of both governance in general and democracy in particular. Needless to say, investigations into ethnic favoritism have been largely ... See full document

... Our paper is linked to past research on the interacting eects of fertility, work- ing life, and maternal health. Using retrospective data from the Health and Re- tirement Study (HRS), Sabbath et al. (2015) categorize ... See full document

... Hansen et al. (1996) showed that the continuous updating estimator is typically less median biased than 2SLS. However, there are still some problems remaining. For in- stance, Guggenberger (2005, 2008) mentioned that its ... See full document

... 11 The price increase of the non-exclusive brand softens interbrand competition in the market and gives the exclusive retailer as well as.. the manufacturer scope to set higher prices ( [r] ... See full document

... the empirical estimation of the investment process, a large part of the empirical investment literature is based on the Q investment model (Tobin and Brainard 1977) where investment opportunities are ... See full document

... compares easily understandable health plans and picks the plan that covers his needs while minimizing cost. Those with higher expected health expenditures are likely to purchase more insurance, leading to adverse ... See full document

... This heterogeneity already suggests that the patterns of arrears and restructurings, while in- terrelated, differ in their characteristics and hence deserve to be studied separately. Furthermore, although the problem of ... See full document

... It is the health economic version of the classic “chicken and egg” prob- lem: We know that people with high socio-economic status (SES) tend to be in better health and live longer than their economically disadvantaged ... See full document

... Proposition 4.2 In the scenario of learning individuals, screening activity, the num- ber of accepted students and individual education investments of the social planner as. well as the [r] ... See full document

... model is considerably different. In particular, our model implies that a government can encourage transparency by preventing a breakdown of the spot market via schemes like TARP. The chapter closely relates to the ... See full document

... this dissertation, "Birth in Times of War - An investigation of health, mortality and social class using historical clinical records" , my co-author and I examine how the onset of the World War II (WWII) ... See full document

... Overall, for 4.68% of all patents in the sample LOR has been declared. This corresponds to 0.59% of all relevant periods. For 62.06% of the patents, which corresponds to 5.99% of all relevant periods, the patent owner ... See full document

... Moreover, external environments and living circumstances appear to drive health in- equalities beyond their role in shaping health behaviors and providing access to health care (Marmot 2015). For example, the Whitehall ... See full document

... I especially thank my colleagues at the Department of Business Cycle Analy- ses and Surveys at the Ifo for the pleasant working atmosphere and the ongo- ing support I experienced from them. I am grateful to my fellow ... See full document