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interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …
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In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main …
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …
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provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
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We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....
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It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better … or in household incomes, fail to account for the large observed increase in the voters' support for the BJP. Non … received and changes in household incomes. Our results suggest that ideology and identity politics were more important factors …
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self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India (Hoffmann et al., 2021) to demonstrate that well-functioning groups …
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This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their use of labor. We analyze the income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates...
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The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has affected an individual's place in the earnings distribution....
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