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The Link between Extreme Poverty and Young Dependents in the Philippines:Evidence from Household Surveys
Mapa, Dennis S.; Albis, Manuel Leonard F.; Lucagbo, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The high level of extreme poverty or those experiencing hunger in the country is the most pressing issue that needs to be addressed by our policymakers. Official government statistics and data from self-rated hunger surveys show an increasing trend in hunger incidence among households. On the...
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Economic insecurity and fertility intentions: the case of Italy
Modena, Francesca; Rondinelli, Concetta; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We aim to provide an explanation for the combination of the relatively low female participation rates and lowest-low fertility levels in Italy. Starting from the assumption that childbearing decisions also depend on uncertainty about future employment, income, and wealth, we empirically assess...
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Impact of Child Labour on School Attendance and School Attainment: Evidence from Bangladesh
Khanam, Rasheda; Ross, Russell - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The paper examines the linkages between child work and both school attendance and school attainment of children aged 5–17 years using data from a survey based in rural Bangladesh. This paper first looks at school attendance as an indicator of a child’s time input in schooling; then it...
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I Would if I Could: Precarious Employment and Childbearing Intentions in Italy
Modena, Francesca; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of childbearing decisions made by couples in Italy. The analysis accounts for the characteristics of both possible parents. Our results do not support established theoretical predictions according to which the increase...
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Determinantes de la fecundidad en el Ecuador
Llerena, Freddy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the determinants of Total Fertility Rate in Ecuador on the basis of ENDEMAIN 2004. We find empirical evidence suggests that women who have information about childbirth and pregnancy, contraceptive use, have higher levels of education and work, are more likely to have fewer...
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Are Fertility Responses to Local Unemployment Shocks Homogenous Across Social Strata? Evidence from England, 1994 to 2010
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … children are normal goods, this paper hypothesizes that an increase in male and female unemployment will have different effects …
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Exclusion and Discrimination as Sources of Inter-Ethnic Inequality in Peru
Barron, Manuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
According to the 2003 National Household Survey, mean labour income for an indigenous worker is only 56% of that for a non-indigenous worker. Studies of ethnic discrimination in Peru’s labour markets generally find that discrimination is too low to explain inequalities of this magnitude....
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A nested recursive logit model for route choice analysis
Mai, Tien; Frejinger, Emma; Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We propose a route choice model that relaxes the independence from irrelevant alternatives property of the logit model by allowing scale parameters to be link specific. Similar to the the recursive logit (RL) model proposed by Fosgerau et al. (2013), the choice of path is modelled as a sequence...
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Predicting the direction of US stock markets using industry returns
Pönkä, Harri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we examine the directional predictability of excess stock market returns by lagged excess returns from industry portfolios and a number of other commonly used variables by means of dynamic probit models. We focus on the directional component of the market returns because, for...
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A methodological proposal to estimate changes of residential property value: case study developed in Bogota
Andres, Jorge; Calvo, Perdomo; Andres, Jorge; Calvo, Perdomo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article is an empirical study of residential land values in the vicinity of the TransMilenio system (Bus Rapid Transit, BRT) in Bogota´ (Colombia). The results have been established through impact evaluation by means of nonparameteric approaches (Propensity Score Matching, PSM) and...
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