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, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply …
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virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …
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and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on …
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household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights … this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son …
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blocked savings accounts over 3-9 months. Workers may only deposit earnings increases, relative to baseline, mitigating income …
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Longer life expectancy can affect individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry, net of any changes in their underlying health. We test this hypothesis by using the sudden arrival of a new treatment in 1995 that dramatically increased life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals. We compare...
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frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are …. Estimates of productivity risk, once we control for employment risk and for individual labour supply choices, are substantially … lower than estimates that attribute all wage variation to productivity risk. Increases in productivity risk impose a …
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for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show …, household responses to uninsured risk appear to be consistent with a simple framework in which household members are allocated …
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This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome …/or extra labor effort. We find strong evidence that ex-post access to labor opportunities reduces ex-ante risk willingness … while access to tax evasion has no effect on risk behavior. We discuss possible explanations for this result based on the …
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