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economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of … robust conclusions. A theoretical framework is followed by stylized facts on household composition. Then the effect of the …
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will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …
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We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic … production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased … bias will depend on the complementarity/substitutability of spouses’ time inputs in the production process. We then show …
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We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …
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With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of...
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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-accruing economic payoffs, but also by other factors such as emphasis on environmentally-friendly energy production and its associated …
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a...
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This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...
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