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Using British panel data, we explore the finding that households often expect theirÂ…financial position to remain unchanged compared to other alternatives, using a generalised middle inflated ordered probit (GMIOP) model. In doing so we account for the tendency of individuals to choose...
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bodies responsible for safeguarding children, is the advent of social media, or online social networking. This research … explores the effect of children's digital social networking on their subjective wellbeing. We use a large representative sample … of 10-15 year olds over the period 2010 to 2014 from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, and estimate the effect of time …
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We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household … household finances and social interaction, rather than focusing one particular facet of household finances, such as the holding … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …
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We explore whether a protective role for savings against future financial hardship exists using household level panel …
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This paper uses data from the British National Child Development Study to investigate the relationship between social interaction and participation in the stock market through holding stocks and/or shares at the individual level. In accordance with the existing literature, the results reveal...
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interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to …
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Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre …-school age children, plays an important role in determining the proportion of this gap that can be explained by individual … characteristics. For individuals without children, the unexplained component of the differential is 99% compared to only 22% for those …
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based on the British Household Panel Survey, suggest that WFTC eligibility served to increase expected wages and that …
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In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
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