Showing 1 - 10 of 196
This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent … household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745987
large household survey for rural Pakistan, we estimate structural labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744915
This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the … analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation … household is associated with no variation in parents¿ labor supply. I also find a strong negative externality among children: as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071157
This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of … land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child … labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in household size. The effect of income is shown to depend upon whether the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884618
There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745825
decrease the amount of time people spend in childcare at home. I test this using household data for a set of European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884607
the British Household Panel Survey, including the retrospective histories concerning work, union, and child bearing, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126156
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial access surveys, which involves asking detailed questions about how respondents meet their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071530
There is an increasing demand for putting a shadow price on the environment to guide public policy and incentivise private behaviour. In practice, setting that price can be extremely difficult as uncertainties abound. There is often uncertainty not just about individual parameters but about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884522
We estimate the impacts of an energy tax – the Climate Change Levy (CCL) – on the manufacturing sector using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of trends in outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884619