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On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks

Hoogeveen, Johannes; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, … - 2004

In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...

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How costly is using livestock as a saving device? : a note on meat prices during food shortages

Zant, Wouter - 2020

We measure if and to what extent livestock sales during food shortages affect the wealth value of livestock. For this … markets), for the period from January 1991 to December 2009. The empirical evidence is consistent with increased livestock … sales during food shortages, especially small livestock, and especially in the south. Results are robust for different ways …

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Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2005

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment...

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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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Capital-energy substitution and shifts in factor demand : a meta-analysis

Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond … - 2006

This paper presents results of a meta-regression analysis on empirical estimates of capital-energy substitution. Theoretically it is clear that a distinction should be made between Morishima substitution elasticities and cross-price elasticities. The former represent purely technical...

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Collective labour supply, taxes, and intrahousehold allocation : an empirical approach

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2015

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...

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Who is at the top? : wealth mobility over the life cycle

Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2012

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Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender differences in confidence concerning future relative income...

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On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks

Hoogeveen, Johannes; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, … - 2004

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Convergence, shocks and poverty

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill H. - 2002

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