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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are …
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Discrimination against the obese and very thin students in Brazilian schools
Kubota, Luis Claudio - 2015
PeNSE 2012 is a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with the Ministry of Health. PeNSE covers a broad range of subjects, especially risk behavior. This article has the aim of analyzing discrimination against obese and very thin students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056998
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Demand systems with unit values : a comparison of two specifications
Lahatte, Agénor; Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François; … - 1997
The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the …
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Demand systems with unit values : a comparison of two specifications
Lahatte, Agénor (contributor) - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428114
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Poverty among female-headed households in Brazil
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Fox, Louise; Mendonça, Rosane … - 2015
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Distributional consequences of asset price inflation in the euro area
Adam, Klaus; Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2015
households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity … price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively few households, while the median household strongly benefits … from housing price increases. The capital gains from bond price increases (relative to household net wealth) do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316626
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Affection, speed dating and heart breaking
Konrad, Kai A. - 2013
This paper explores the role of unilateral and idiosyncratic affection rents ("love") from being married with a specific individual in a matching model with individuals with heterogenous matching frequencies. We show that individuals suffer in expectation from being matched with individuals with...
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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456513
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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership
Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018
forming partnerships using data for Germany from the Panel on Household Finances (PHF). Relative to France, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874278