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Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle
Colman, Gregory; Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
As economic recessions reduce employment and wages, associated shifts in time and income constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health behaviors. Prior work has focused exclusively on recreational exercise, which typically represents only about 4% of total daily physical...
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The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States
Bloom, David; canning, david; Moore, Michael John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We explore the proposition that expected longevity affects retirement decisions and accumulated wealth using micro data drawn from the Health and Retirement Study for the United States. We use data on a person's subjective probability of survival to age 75 as a proxy for their prospective...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
A recent literature has advanced the use of Engel curves to estimate overall CPI bias. In this paper, I show that the methodology is sensitive to the modeling of household demography. Existing estimates of CPI bias do not account for the changing effect of household size on budget shares, and...
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Technological Progress and Economic Transformation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Growth theory can go a long way toward accounting for phenomena linked with U.S. economic development. Some examples are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise in skill since 1800, (iii) the demise of child labor...
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The American Family and Family Economics
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility. …
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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …
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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj; Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829188
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Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring income and living standards, we do not know how these...
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Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
Pollak, Robert A.; Pezzin, Liliana E.; Schone, Barbara S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn...
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