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Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

twolongitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and theNational Child Development Study (NCDS) are used to address …

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The economics of teacher supply

Zabalza, Antoni; Turnbull, Philip; Williams, Gareth - 1979

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to … allows caste to remaina persistent feature of the Indian marriage market.[...] …

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Teenage Expectations and Desires about Family Formation in the United States

Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents …

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Employment, Family Union, and Childbearing Decisionsin Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model,which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...

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The Effect of Unobservables on Labour Supply Decisions:The formal and informal sector during transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increasedactivities in the informal sector. However despite prevalent delays in wagepayments many workers were still observed to be working full-time in theformal sector. Here a model of workers' labour supply decisions...

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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends

Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public …

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How Important Is the Stock Market Effect on Consumption?

Ludvigson, Sydney C.; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

movements inthe stock market. From mid-1994 to mid-1997, the aggregate value of household sector equityholdings (including those …

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Does Consumer Confidence Forecast Household Expenditure? A Sentiment Index Horse Race

Bram, Jason; Ludvigson, Sydney C. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]This study is the first formal investigation ofconsumer attitudes that compares the forecasting power ofthe University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentimentand the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index.We begin with a background analysis of structural differencesbetween the...

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Market Returns and Mutual Fund Flows

Remolona, Eli M.; Kleiman, Paul; Bocian, Debbie Gruenstein - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

[...]In this study, we use recent historical evidence toexplore one dimension of the broad relationship betweenmarket returns and mutual fund flows: the effect of shorttermmarket returns on mutual fund flows. Research onthis issue has already confirmed high correlations betweenmarket returns and...

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