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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior

González, Libertad; Özcan, Berkay - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...

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Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier; González, Libertad; Keane, Claire; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference … driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and …

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...

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Martingale conditions for optimal saving: discrete time

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1978

Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for optimal saving in a stochastic neo-classical one-good world with discrete time. The usual technique of dynamic programming is replaced by classical variational and concavity arguments, modified to take account of conditions of measurability...

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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation. Part a: the consumption function as solution of a boundary value problem

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation. Part b: existence of solutions of boundary value problems

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

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The optimal consumption function in a Brownian model of accumulation part b: existence of solutions of boundary value problems

Foldes, Lucien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In Part A of the present study, subtitled 'The Consumption Function as Solution of a Boundary Value Problem' Discussion Paper No. TE/96/297, STICERD, London School of Economics, we formulated a Brownian model of accumulation and derived sufficient conditions for optimality of a plan generated by...

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Does relative income matter? Are the critics right?

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is ‘Yes’....

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Modernisation and son preference

Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for … expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich (Jiangsu) Chinese province we are able to test for different types of gender bias …

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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household … divorced. There appears to be little correlation between happiness and either gender or education level. We find some evidence …

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