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The Good Wife? : Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household
Buchmann, Nina; Dupas, Pascaline; Ziparo, Roberta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are entrusted with a larger budget share. We show, first...
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire : Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
Duflo, Esther - 2004
wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are … composition of household expenditure is sensitive to the gender of the recipient of a rainfall shock. For example, rainfall shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468195
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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
Bellora, Cecilia - 2017
Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455185
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337881
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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
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Efficiency in Household Decision Making : Evidence from the Retirement Savings of U.S. Couples
Choukhmane, Taha; Goodman, Lucas; O'Dea, Cormac - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Pareto Efficiency is a core assumption of most models of household decision-making. We test this assumption using a new dataset covering the retirement saving contributions of over a million U.S. individuals. While a vast literature has failed to reject household efficiency in developed...
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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
younger people; between developed and developing countries; and by other demographic characteristics such as gender, marital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210058
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A Mother's Voice : Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments
Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in Uganda. The hypothesis is that the training will enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226159
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453152
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Diffuse Bunching with Frictions : Theory and Estimation
Anagol, Santosh; Davids, Allan; Lockwood, Ben; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We incorporate a general model of frictions into the bunching-based elasticity estimator. This model relies on fewer parameters than the conventional approach, replacing bunching window bounds with a single "lumpiness parameter," while matching rich observed bunching patterns such as...
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