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This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for the collection of short papers in honor of Gary Becker that is scheduled to appear in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics.
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The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time variation, as some states abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary...
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individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members …
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the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …
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A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the …
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wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine … what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The …
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Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment protection (CEP) in form of guaranteed employment (GEC) or severance pay contracts (SPC). A GEC fully eliminates both the income risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC...
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choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …, crosssubsidisation of particular groups of people is often mandated on providers, reducing costcompetition and diversity of choice. (c …
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Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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We propose an extension of Tversky's lexicographic semiorder to a model of boundedly rational choice. We explore the … connection with sequential rationalisability of choice, and we provide axiomatic characterisations of both models in terms of … observable choice data. …
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