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Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

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Child expenditure : the role of working mothers, lone parents, sibling composition and household provision

Farrell, Lisa; Shields, Michael - 2001

This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury...

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The response of consumption in Russian households to economic shocks

Stillman, Steven - 2001

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During the time period studied in this paper (1994 - 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme movements in the real ruble-dollar exchange rate. The...

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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969 - 95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China

Gong, Xiaodong - 2000

covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food … budget shares and total expenditures, but assumes that the demographic variables enter the model in a linear way. We correct … for potential endogeneity of total expenditures. Our results suggest that there are economies of scale in families …

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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia

Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002

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Timing, togetherness and time windfalls

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2000

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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

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Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers : theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002

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