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We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … doing, recent literature on the modelling of proportions is combined with the growing body of research concerning household …
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socioeconomic characteristics, housing traits, country-specific constant terms, and household unobserved heterogeneity. We attribute … access to liquidity. Household's reported distress is also affected by excess indebtedness relative to the debt load of …
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growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard … is linked to household decision making, our results indicate that examining the relationship between exponential growth … bias and household finance without adequate controls for financial literacy may generate biased results. …
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work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the … price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for household production. In line with our prediction, analyses of data … from a unique Danish household survey show that complete income pooling is more frequent where commercial domestic services …
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Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of...
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informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …
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is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In … the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its incidence and to a lesser degree its determinants depend on the …
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We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
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Many studies indicate that human height is determined largely by childhood circumstances, which in turn influences an adult's labor market opportunities. The aim of this note is to test this thesis by examining the correlation between childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one...
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mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
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