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.Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …
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Did the financial crisis spread from distressed banks to households through a contraction of the credit supply? We study this question with a dataset that contains observations on all accounts in Danish banks as well as comprehensive information about individual account holders and banks. We...
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This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …
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for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor – a large number of surplus men in the marriage … market in China – affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …
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allowing the marginal effects on children's outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …
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In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
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In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data.Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …
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We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell … goods bought at the market with individuals' time. We apply our model to new and unique data on Dutch couples with children …. Our application uses a novel estimation strategy that builds upon the familiar two-stage allocation representation of the …
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We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption … is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to satisfy testable constraints and (ii) some …;m-demandquot;) framework in which household demands are directly derived from the marginal rates of substitution. Finally, we present an …
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