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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504302
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Duration of Marriage, Fertility and Female Employment Opportunities in England and Wales in 1911
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is … shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504562
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and …We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662232
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Sorting and Long-Run Inequality
Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661607
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Equalizing Wage Differences and Bargaining Power: Evidence from a Panel of French Firms
Cahuc, Pierre; Gianella, Christian; Goux, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of firm-level bargaining, along the lines of Manning (1993). In this context, we provide a firm level wage equation that explicitly accounts for firm heterogeneity. This wage equation explains inter-firm wage differentials by differences in labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124297
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Venture Capital Financing: The Role of Bargaining Power and the Evolution of Informational Asymmetry
Koskinen, Yrjö; Rebello, Michael; Wang, Jun - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We model a situation where the entrepreneur has an informational advantage during the early stages of an investment project while the venture capitalist has the informational advantage during the later stages. We examine how this evolution of informational asymmetry affects venture investment...
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Debt Concentration and Bargaining Power: Large Banks, Small Banks, and Secondary Prices
Fernández, Raquel; Ozler, Sule - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
Commercial bank debts of developing countries are held by a heterogenous group of banks. Here we focus on the distinction between large international money-centre banks and smaller domestic banks. In particular we investigate the role of debt concentration – the amount of a country’s debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656170
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Equilibrium Exchange Rate Policies: Complicit Renegotiation-Proof Outcomes
Mella-Barral, Pierre; Vitale, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Countries can repeatedly and opportunistically renegotiate the terms of agreements to which they can only complicitly assent. Therefore, when attempting to coordinate exchange rate policies, they continuously play partnership games. We develop a reduced form model of exchange rate management...
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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal
Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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