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Labor Market Returns, Marriage Opportunities, or the Education System? Explaining Gender Differences in Numeracy in Indonesia

Suryadarma, Daniel - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

This paper measures the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school age children using a longitudinal dataset from Indonesia. A unique feature of the dataset is that it uses an identical test for two survey rounds, which implies that any changes in the gender gap are caused by...

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The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steve - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more then … half of women appear to be making standard retirement plans. At the same time, more than one in five individuals seem to … have delayed their retirement planning and approximately one in ten either do not know when they expect to retire or expect …

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DEMOGRAPHICS, RETIREMENT SAVING, AND SUPERANNUATION POLICY: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE.

BATEMAN, H.; FRISCH, J.; KINGSTON, G.; PIGGOTT, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1990

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Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents: evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents’ need to work. Taking the...

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Population Ageing, Taxation, Pensions and Health Costs

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

This paper argues against the policy position that begins with a doomsday scenario of publicly provided health insurance and pension systems threatened with collapse under the stresses imposed by population ageing, and instead contends that the threat of crisis in these systems is policy driven....

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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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Disagreement in Partners’ Reports of Financial Difficulty

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Gong, Xiaodong; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results...

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Booth, Alison; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2013

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...

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