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Marshall and labour demand in Russia : going back to basics
Konings, Jozef; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2001
Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate Russian labour demand equations for the year 1997. The most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403873
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322077
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Black-white marital matching : race, anthropometrics, and socioeconomics
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2011
the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523514
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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013
height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753798
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The effect of weight on labor market outcomes : an application of genetic instrumental variables
Böckerman, Petri; Cawley, John H.; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2016
social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification …
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Regional price differences in urban China 1986 - 2001 : estimation and implication
Honge Gong, Cathy (contributor); Meng, Xin (contributor) - 2008
Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … regional price variations our finding suggests that regional income inequality increased the most between the late 1980s and … early 1990s, and stabilized in the mid 1990s, which contradicts previous findings using unadjusted income. -- Spatial price …
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Child welfare and old-age security in female headed households in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger (contributor) - 2009
This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794027
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Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty : theory and evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011
Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...
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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; Soest, Arthur van; Zhang, Ping - 2000
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...
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Engel curves, spatial variation in prices and demand for commodities in Côte d'Ivoire
Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d … commodity quantities and deriving Engel curves. Our findings reveal that the own-price elasticity of meat and dairy products is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233071