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like better shops or schools. If this is the case for high income households, conservation areas will have a further impact … high concentration of high income households – as an endogenous amenity. We develop a logit-based sorting model in which … highly value conservation areas and prefer to live in areas with a high concentration of high income households. We …
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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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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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income and given the fact of a one-breadwinner- or two- breadwinners-family. In Section 5 the effects of children on …
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This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is motivated by the low proportion of married among African mothers since 48% are never married. This means that the children of all these never married mothers have no access to...
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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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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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makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through … domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that …This discussion paper led to a chapter in: (A.B. Atkinson, F.J. Bourguigson (Eds.)), 2014, 'Handbook of Income …
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social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality …We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing …-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This …
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term using income data for 15 European countries and the US, and show that it reduces a considerable share of the bias due …
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