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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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We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under … that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …
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The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...
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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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We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
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We consider the life cycle choices of a household deciding how much to consume and how to allocate spouses time to work … work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to transitory and …
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We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children’s educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this … background, lower household income and higher labor supply of the mother. Our evidence suggests that single motherhood reduces …
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In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children’s educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. -- school choice ; educational attainment ; ordered response model …
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