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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption
Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
collective rationality. Our main result takes the form of a 'collective' version of the Afriat Theorem for rational behavior in …
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Are Children Decision-Makers Within the Household?
Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the "caring preferences" of their...
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Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations
Akresh, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703014
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703137
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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884093
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show …, collective rationality within monogamous households is not rejected. Using our proposed test procedure, collective rationality is … however rejected for monogamous households. Furthermore, our test also rejects collective rationality for bigamous households …
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Rational Students and Resit Exams
Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532120
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Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris; Sutter, Matthias; Budescu, David V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We reformulated the task in terms of "assets" in a market context. Teams of traders learn the task’s...
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