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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a hedge (i.e. a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...

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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update

Bohn, Henning - 2003

Yes, subject to concerns about Medicare inefficiencies and potentially self-confirming skepticism. The U.S. social security system-broadly defined to include Medicare-faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic change is also likely to raise...

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Financing retirement in the European Union

Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2002

This paper explores how EU countries can address various challenges (including the aging of the population) affecting their systems of old-age income support. It presents two scenarios illustrating the most important uncertainties surrounding the major developments that affect the pension...

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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act

Aura, Saku - 2002

simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the classical single-utility-function model of the household. This law …

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Floods and spillovers : households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand

Noy, Ilan; Cuong Nhu Nguyen; Patel, Pooja - 2019

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the …

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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 …

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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination

Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021

characteristics of the Canton of Bern using household-level data. In particular, we exploit quasi-natural policy variation in voting …

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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade

Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021

Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...

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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …

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