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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245060

Celebrating 150 years of analyzing fertility trends in Germany

Kendzia, Michael Jan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

Ever since the very beginning of the Journal of Economics and Statistics, population economics has featured prominently in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530669

The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey : towards a better understanding of labor markets in transition

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681425

Do ethnic minorities “stretch” their time? : evidence from the UK time use survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure …, integration experience, family composition, household productivity and other. -- Time use ; multitasking ; ethnic minorities ; UK …

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Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor); … - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561643

Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : a structural equation model approach

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847100

Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site …

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