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A Collective Model of Household Behavior with Private and Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from US Data

Donni, Olivier - Econometric Society - 2004

In this paper, we adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior --- which supposes that each household member is characterized by his/her own preferences and the decision process results in Pareto-efficient outcomes --- and assume, in addition, that agents are egoistic and consumption is...

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Searching for Mr. Right: The duration of remaining single based on evidence from Japan

Matsui, Miki - Econometric Society - 2004

The age at first marriage for women has increased in Japan over the past decade. Previous studies show both rising … female labor force participation and education levels attribute to the delay in marriage for women, but only for a small … fraction. Applying search theory indicates that the utility of being singles, the arrival rate of marriage offers, the discount …

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Does motherâ€™s education matter in childâ€™s health? Evidence from South Africa

Villa, Edgar; Medrano, Patricia; Rodríguez, Catherine - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper studies the effect that mother's education as knowledge has on child health using height for age as health measure. Using cross sectional data from de 1993 South Africa Integrated Household Survey, and health measures form de National Center for Health Statistics, we find a...

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The Household, Time Use and the Sharing Rule

Rees, Ray; Breunig, Robert; Apps, Patricia - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper sets out a theoretical framework for models of the household production and labour supply decisions of families, and estimates empirical specifications on time use survey data containing information on labour supply, domestic work and pure leisure. The models are then compared with...

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Marriage Market, Parents' Bargaining Powers, and Children's Education

Park, Cheolsung - Econometric Society - 2004

. This paper suggests that the marriage market conditions, summarized by the sex ratio, can be used to test the household …

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Sharing Health Risk and Income Risk within Households: Evidence from Japanese Data

Yoshida, Atsushi; Kim, Young-Sook - Econometric Society - 2004

We examine the question of which household members should consume medical services, and in what quantities, by using Japanese household-level data. We employ two key concepts, health risk and income risk, and investigate whether family heads or dependents bear these risks. Health risk is the...

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Housing Affordability Options for First Home Owner-Occupiers in Australia: A Simulation Analysis

Guest, Ross - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper presents a simulation analysis of several policies, or policy proposals, for improving housing affordability for first home owner-occupiers in Australia: the First Home Owner Grant, housing equity partnerships and deposit loans. The focus is on the impact of these measures for housing...

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Marriage Market, Parents' Bargaining Powers, and Children's Nutrition and Education

Park, Cheolsung - Econometric Society - 2004

's nutrition and education. I test whether the marriage market condition summarized by the sex ratio affects the allocations and …

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The different consumption functions of products and product differentiation

Cheung, Waka; Ng, Yew-Kwang - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper develops a monopolistic competition model to study the characteristics of products, such as quality improvement and product diversity (function-specialization and individualization), and the division of labor in production. Different from the ordinary economic model, our utility...

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Endogenous Business Cycles with Consumption Externalities

Li, Zhi; Yin, Xiaopeng - Econometric Society - 2004

Empirical evidences tell us that in the recent years the expansion period is increased with reduction of the contraction period in the U.S. business cycles. Moreover, the business cycles in the United States also show the trend to be moderated with recent economic growth induced and supported by...

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