Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices Using recent SIPP data, we estimate two econometric models to study the differences in the effect of child care costs on employment status and differences in the mode of child care used controlling for employment status. For both married and single women, full-time employment is more elastic with respect to changes in the ...

This paper provides an analysis of technical and economic interrelationships among species harvested in Hawaii’s pelagic longline fishery. The results indicate that this multispecies fishery is characterized by a joint production process, meaning that the regulation of one species would affect the harvest of other species. It implies that a single species regulation may not be appropriate in ma...

I derive bounds on price elasticities in a dynamic model that is mis-specified due to optimization frictions such as adjustment costs or inattention. The bounds are a function of the observed effect of a price change on demand, the size of the price change, and the degree of frictions. I measure the degree of frictions by the utility losses agents tolerate to make choices that deviate from the ...

Rebound eff ects measure the behaviorally induced off set in the reduction of energy consumption following effi ciency improvements. Using both panel estimation and quantile-regression methods on household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009, this study investigates the heterogeneity of the rebound eff ect in private transport. With the average rebound eff ect being in ...

Rebound eff ects measure the behaviorally induced off set in the reduction of energy consumption following effi ciency improvements. Using both panel estimation and quantile-regression methods on household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009, this study investigates the heterogeneity of the rebound eff ect in private transport. With the average rebound eff ect being in ...

AT&T's long distance prices are regulated in order to avoid supracompetitive pricing. This rationale presumes that AT&T possesses sufficient market power to raise prices substantially above marginal cost. This paper estimates firm specific demand elasticities for AT&T and the other large long distance companies using monthly data for 1988 through 1991 from five states. Lerner indices are calcul...

This paper uses a general method of moment regression technique to estimate an energy demand function with a dataset covering 71 countries between 1965 and 2010. The estimated results show that countries undergoing rapid economic growth may show relatively higher income and price elasticities in the long run. The higher income elasticities and lower price elasticity in the short run of rapid gr...

The A.C. Nielson household scanner panel is used to analyze factors affecting brand-size choices for spaghetti. These data link product purchases, which are scanned, with household demographics and market information on the store where purchased. A multinominal logit model and a nested logit model are specified and estimated. In addition to the effects of inventory and brand loyalty, the most i...