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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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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...

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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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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alesina, Alberto F; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

(married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this …

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Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching

Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Hopkins, Ed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

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Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium: Analyzing Marital Patterns Over Several Decades

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Salanié, Bernard; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow … predictions, we find that the “marital college-plus premium” has increased for women but not for men. …

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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...

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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cezar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

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Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliy; Llull, Joan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

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Fertility Control Early in Marriage in Ireland a Century Ago

Duffy, Niall; O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Data were extracted from the 1911 Irish manuscript census to study the regional variation in the extent and character of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the...

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