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Demand for Sexual Services in Britain : Does Sex Education Matter?
Strøm, Steinar - 2018
We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain using data from Britain's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-2, 199-2001,Natsal-3, 2010-2012). The percentage of men asking for paid sex is about 12 per...
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
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Lost in Translation : What Do Engel Curves Tell Us About the Cost of Living?
Almås, Ingvild - 2018
The Hamilton method for estimating CPI bias is simple, intuitive, and has been widely adopted. We show that the method confiates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels. Assuming a single price index across the income distribution is inconsistent with the downward sloping...
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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
conditions as well as their stock of dependent children. The effects were larger among the lower socioeconomic ranks. Our …
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Malthus and the Industrial Revolution : Evidence from a Time-Varying VAR
Rathke, Alexander - 2014
In the process of economic development economies grow through various regimes, each characterized by different demographic-economic interactions. The changes in these interactions are key elements in different explanations of the escape from Malthusian stagnation. We employ time-varying vector...
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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in Pre-Modern England
Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - 2021
We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in...
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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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The Dynamics of Income-Related Health Inequality Among US Children
Chatterji, Pinka - 2011
children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …
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Like Mother, Like Father? Gender Assortative Transmission of Child Overweight
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
clinically measured weight and height of a representative sample of English children. Our findings are consistent with the … among white children and older parents. We also find support for the existence of an unanticipated gender …
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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made possible by linking Korean-born children who were adopted at infancy …
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