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Mommies’ Girls Get Dresses, Daddies’ Boys Get Toys. Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers’ labor market outcomes, we take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401716
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Mommies’ Girls Get Dresses, Daddies’ Boys Get Toys. Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers’ labor market outcomes, we take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401719
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Precautionary Saving and Altruism
Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
The potential importance of the precautionary motive for saving has been noted in many studies during the last decades. This paper examines the determination of precautionary saving when people have access to intra-family risk sharing. I show that, with uncertain future income, altruism per se...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644547
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Time Consistent Matrimony with Endogenous Trust
Dufwenberg, Martin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1996
A simple model of marriage and divorce predicts that no marriages occur. Yet, in real life, people marry all the time … formed but end in divorce, some last a lifetime. For certain parameterizations a lifelong efficient marriage is guaranteed … exceedingly emotionally unattractive. These results may have some bearing also on other partnerships than marriage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644622
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Precautionary Saving and Altruism .
Nordblom, K. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
The potential importance of the precautionary motive for saving has been noted in many studies during the last decades. This paper examines the determination of precautionary saving when people have access to intra-family risk sharing. I show that, with uncertain future income, altruism per se...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669610
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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651891
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Parental unemployment and child health
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on parental unemployment. We find that children with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890034
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A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO MODELING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Ranganathan, Shyam; Bali Swain, Ranjula; Sumpter, David - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
A key aim of economics is to set goals and investigate the relationship between various socio-economic indicators. By tting time series data using a Bayesian dynamical systems approach we identify non-linear interactions between GDP, child mortality, fertility rate and female education. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945075
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Study achievement for students with kids
Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; Zamac, Jovan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of female university students in Sweden has children. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645247
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Education policy and early fertility: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major edu-cational reform in Sweden in which vocational tracks in upper secondary school were prolonged from two to three years and the curricula were made more academic. Our identification strategy takes advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645251