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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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Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - EconWPA - 2005
The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of...
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Decision making pattern of subsistence farmers in Bulgaria
Mishev, Plamen; Kostov, Philip - EconWPA - 2004
Economic research by and large is dominated by a ‘rationality’ paradigm. Economic decision making within this paradigm is viewed as a maximising procedure. In general the latter represents the decision-making as a choice amongst a well defined set of alternatives. In this paper we question...
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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization
Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den - EconWPA - 2005
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure time. This paper tries to answer three questions using a new matching procedure where couples are matched to other couples. (1) Do...
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The participation of couples in the labor market: an econometric analysis
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Veronique, SIMONNET - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the interactions between household members’ utilities when deciding whether or not to join the labor market. Using asymptotic least squares, we analyze a sample of 5425 couples living in France in 1997. By comparing the results obtained with more standard methods, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408344
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Schooling and Parental Death
Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...
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Decomposition of Household Expenditure and Child Welfare in Rural Ethiopia
Kebede, Bereket - EconWPA - 2004
also important. Pre-marriage wealth, particularly for the female spouse, positively affects allocations to children. Length … of marriage and the existence of a written marriage contract increase relative expenditures on children. Both measures … reflect stability of marriage indicating that ‘optimal’ matching in the marriage market is an important determinant of intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118701
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Intra-household Distribution of Expenditures in Rural Ethiopia: A Demand Systems Approach
Kebede, Bereket - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the combined effects of changes in prices, income and demographic composition on adult and young, male and female members of households. The recently developed Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) is used since a demand system provides a unified framework for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118808
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Estimating and testing preferences for consumption, work hours and savings using the PSID, the profit function and the true dynamic budget constraint
Chin, William - EconWPA - 2003
Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to construct an intertemporal budget constraint for selected single headed households. A new functional form of the dual consumer profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply...
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Is there a Daily Discount Rate? Evidence from the Food Stamp Nutrition Cycle
Shapiro, Jesse M. - EconWPA - 2003
A central prediction of the quasi-hyperbolic model of time preference is that consumers will be impatient over short-run tradeoffs. I present the first nonlaboratory test of this implication using data on the nutritional intake of food stamp recipients. Caloric intake declines by 10 to 15...
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