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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

child labour variables are compared. We conclude that children and adults are perfect labour substitutes and that the … marginal productivity of children is roughly one-third to one-half that of male adults. The average contribution of each …

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Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rise?

Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A. - EconWPA - 2003

In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in … income rises by enough to eliminate transfers from children to parents. …

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556106

Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition

Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001

Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap's elements they target; therefore, it is important to...

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ISH: Hacia una Medida de la Satisfacción de los Hogares desde el Punto de Vista de la Oferta de Trabajo.

Marcelo, Darwin; Villa, Juan Miguel - EconWPA - 2004

El estudio de las preferencias es uno de los temas menos tratados por la econometría aplicada. En el presente artículo se pretende realizar una aproximación translogarítimica de las preferencias por medio de la construcción de un Índice de Satisfacción de los Hogares (ISH) con base al...

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Understanding the Effects of Sibling Composition on Child

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

invested in children (which in turn affect child mortality), we use a maximum likelihood method to model birth spacing and …

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Time allocation within the family: welfare implications of life in a couple

Couprie, Helene - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyzes the household decision-making process leading to the allocation of time and consumption in the family. We estimate, on the British Household Panel Survey, a collective model of demand for leisure generalized to the production of a household public good. For the first time in...

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Do family choices slow down economic growth?

Taylor, Leon - EconWPA - 2000

Econometric simulations provide no evidence that families in West Virginia encouraged sons to drop out of high school in order to earn income as coal miners, at the net expense of later income that they would have earned with more education. Estimates of the typical family's subjective rate of...

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Pain

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2001

Painkilling drugs produce a good called relief which reduces the fixed level of bad (pain) the individual is endowed with. These drugs have the side-effect of reducing the utility the individual gets from consuming goods. This means that the shadow price of relief counts not only the cost of...

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Genetic Endowments, Parental and Child Health in Rural Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket - EconWPA - 2004

level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined. In addition … the health literature, no significant correlation between children’s health and per capita expenditures is found. This … most prices are not significant, the prices of food items that are mostly consumed by children are significantly and …

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