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Economic Growth and the Financial Economics of Capital Accumulation under Shifting Technological Change
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S; Newcomb, Richard T. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408266
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Working-age Adult Mortality and Primary Sschool Attendance in Rural Kenya
Yamano, Takashi; Jayne, Thomas S. - EconWPA - 2005
The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its impact on child welfare. This article estimates the impact of AIDS-related adult mortality on primary school attendance in rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062404
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RISK-SHARING NETWORKS AND INSURANCE AGAINST ILLNESS
Dercon, Stefan; Weerdt, Joachim de - EconWPA - 2004
Most risk-sharing tests on developing country data are conducted at the level of the village; generally, the full risk-sharing hypothesis is rejected. This paper uses detailed data on all insurance networks within a village in Tanzania; networks are not clustered but largely overlapping. We test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118745
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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan
Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000
of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125788
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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. Because of paternal uncertainty, men unlike women may err in investing resources in offspring that is not biologically theirs …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408289
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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004
This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076542
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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA
Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412513
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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
India that examined the economics of rural Internet kiosks, and relate this multifaceted case study to the theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118690
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
there differences among genders? Does “family” have an impact? Is the effect of family related variables similar among … genders? With a French survey, we find that if postdoc is as common for women as for men, females are less mobile … internationally, especially in direction of the United States. The impact of the “family” on the probability of taking a postdoc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556767