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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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We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
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