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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168051
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Measuring the return on household enterprise : what matters most for whom?
Krislert Samphantharak; Townsend, Robert M. - In: Journal of development economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 58-70
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631026
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Improving consumption measurement and other survey data through CAPI : evidence from a randomized experiment
Caeyers, Bet; Chalmers, Neil; De Weerdt, Joachim - In: Journal of development economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 19-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631032
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Social media as a recruitment and data collection tool : experimental evidence on the relative effectiveness of web surveys and chatbots
Beam, Emily A. - In: Journal of development economics 162 (2023), pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014291020
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O brother, where start thou? : sibling spillovers on college and major choice in four countries
Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2020 - Latest version: May 10, 2020
Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219366
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Connections and performance in bankers' turnover : better wed over the mixen than over the moor
Battistin, Erich (contributor); Graziano, Clara (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we study top executive turnover in Italian Banks over the period 1993-2001. We relate the probability of survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772161
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Setting a good example? : examining sibling spillovers in educational achievement using a regression discontinuity design
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982073
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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size : 1980s to the present
Carson, Scott Alan - 2019
related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …, there is a positive relationship between BMIs and household size. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016057
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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences
Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018 - This version: 9 November 2018
The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings' sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933853
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Intra-household resource allocation and familial ties
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - In: Journal of development economics 127 (2017), pp. 109-132
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785515