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(Belief in) life after death impacts the utility of life before it - a difference in preferences or an artefact?
(2016-04)
In most of the religions the preservation of own, God-given, life is obligatory. The time-trade-off method (TTO) forces to voluntarily forego life years. We verify if this is a problem for the religious and how it impacts ...
Automation, Partial and Full
(2020-04)
When some steps of a complex, multi-step task are automated, the demand for human work in the remaining complementary sub-tasks goes up. In contrast, when the task is fully automated, the demand for human work declines. ...
Efficiency in spatially disaggregated labour market matching
(2016-05)
We analyse the efficiency in a labour market matching process. We contribute to the literature by comparing different spatial aggregation levels - NUTS-1 to NUTS-4 and analysing monthly and annual perspectives. We use data ...
Does inflation matter? The influence of perceived price changes on well-being
(2023-03)
I confirm the foregoing state of the art for inflation and well-being correlation while filling the gap in the literature and estimating the effects of individuals’ inflation perception on well-being. I also discover the ...
Weighting Sub-Populations in Longevity Inequality Research: A Practical Approach
(2017-08)
The weights allowing calculation of life expectancy for a whole population as a weighted average of group-specific life expectancies are proposed. They are characterized by a
minimum distance from the actual population ...
Are Ideas Really Getting Harder To Find? R&D Capital and the Idea Production Function
(2022-02)
We supplement the 'Idea Production Function' (IPF) with measures of R&D capital. We construct a time series of R&D capital stock in the US (1968-2019) based on cumulated R&D investment. We estimate the IPF with patent ...
On the Optimal Labor Income Share
(2018-02)
Labor's share of income has attracted interest in recent years reflecting its apparent decline. These falls, witnessed across many countries, are usually deemed undesirable. Any such assertion, however, begs the question ...
GDP Effects of Pandemics: A Historical Perspective
(2020-12)
The paper estimates dynamic effects of pandemics on GDP per capita with local projections, controlling for the effects of wars and weather conditions, using a novel dataset that covers 33 countries and stretches back to ...
Flowers vs garbage trucks: which type of local government investment has the greatest impact on economic growth
(2023-03)
Recently, there has been a rise in research focused on determining the magnitude of the fiscal multiplier. One aspect of this research involves estimating the fiscal multiplier of specific components of government revenues ...
What makes a successful scientist in a central bank? Evidence from the RePEc database
(2021-04)
This research analyzes factors affecting scientific success of central bankers. We combine data from the RePEc and EDIRC databases, which contain information about economic publications of authors from 182 central banks. ...