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Child expenditure : the role of working mothers, lone parents, sibling composition and household provision
Farrell, Lisa; Shields, Michael - 2001
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 items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404134
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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308440
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Channels of labour supply responses of lone parents to changed work incentives
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793035
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Are children decision-makers within the household?
Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - 2008
Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … household decision-making process. -- Intra-household allocation ; collective household models ; children ; demand analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759861
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Collective labour supply : heterogeneity and nonparticipation
Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Magnac, … - 2005
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are … couples without children. The implications of the unitary framework are rejected while those of the collective approach are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257851
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The effect of unconventional fiscal policy on consumption : new evidence based on transactional data
Koeniger, Winfried; Kress, Peter - 2024
We use novel transaction-level card expenditure data to estimate the effect of the temporary value-added tax (VAT) cut in Germany 2020. We find that the annualized growth rate of expenditures for durables increased by 6 percentage points (pp) during the tax cut, with a particularly strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084082
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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data
Klaveren, Chris van (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656898
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Does unemployment worsen babies' health? : a tale of siblings, maternal behaviour and selection
De Cao, Elisabetta; McCormick, Barry; Nicodemo, Catia - 2019
We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual data from hospital administrative records between 2003...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099571
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Use of extra-school time and child behaviours : evidence from the UK
Meroni, Elena Claudia; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2018
In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data. Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874602
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Maternal education and early child development : the roles of parental support for learning, learning materials, and father characteristics
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemir, … - 2023
-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures … suggestive evidence of a positive impact on children's social-emotional development. Examining the channels, we find that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317853