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New Developments in the Measurement of Welfare and Well-being

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Plug, Erik J.S. - Tinbergen Institute - 2012

This paper is dating from 1995, when it has been presented at the Ragnar Frisch Centennial Memorial Conference in Oslo. It has never been published before. In this paper for the first time the Cantril ladder question data have been employed in the way which later has become known as happiness...

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of sibship size and birth order on educational attainment, for the United States and the Netherlands. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the effect of sibship size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex...

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Marriage Markets and Single Motherhood in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble Y. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

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Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition

Lach, Saul; Moraga-González, José Luis - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper examines how the distribution of prices changes with the number of competitors in the market. Using gasoline price data from the Netherlands we find that as competition increases, the distribution of prices spreads out: the low prices go down while the high prices go up, on average....

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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis

Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...

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Marriage and the City

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities …

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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922

Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

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