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Competitive Markets, Collective Decisions and Group Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2003

We consider a general equilibrium model where groups operating in a competitive market environment can have several members and make efficient collective consumption decisions. Individuals have the option to leave the group and make it on their own or join another group. We study the effect of...

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Bargaining Power and Equilibrium Consumption

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2005

We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...

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Non-Parametric Preprocessing for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - CESifo - 2014

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data can be assumed to be sufficiently homogeneous with respect to the specific research...

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General Equilibrium with Multi-Member Households and Production

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2011

We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - CESifo - 2008

production is influenced by family size, but this does not hold for the male; (5) Both the male and the female have a backward …

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Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh : State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

Using longitudinal data of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh, covering the time period 1982 – 2005, and exploiting dynamic panel data models, we analyze siblings’ death at infancy, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and a causal effect of death...

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Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Surveillance Data in Matlab, Bangladesh

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

previous child, and the family’s gender composition. Birth spacing is driven by contraceptive use and other factors. We find …Abstract: Analyzing the effect of family planning on child survival remains an important issue but is not … straightforward because of several mechanisms linking family planning, birth intervals, total fertility, and child survival. This …

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Birth Spacing, Child Survival and Fertility Decisions : Analysis of Causal Mechanismsa

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: We jointly analyze infant mortality, birth spacing, and total fertility of children in a rural area in … that if families would behave as if their all children were sons, fertility levels would be reduced by 3.5% and 5.7% in the …

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Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India : Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

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Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...

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