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Portfolio allocation, income uncertainty and households' flight from risk

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; Harris, Mark N.; Spencer, … - 2016

Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model -...

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The impact of changing climate on children's nutritional status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; … - 2021

varying rainfall jointly. Leveraging a saturated fixed-effects model that controls for annual trends and location …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non … also matters. Possible explanations for our findings include consequences of varying heat, humidity, and rainfall on the …

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Ecosystems and human health : the local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia

Garg, Teevrat - 2019

This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...

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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2009

We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...

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Stepping stones versus dead end jobs : exits from temporary contracts in Italy after the 2003 reform

Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2012

In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market reform aimed at flexibilizing and liberalizing the Italian labor market by a widespread use of...

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The effect of product market competition on job instability

Fenoll, Ainhoa Aparicio - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...

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Individual poverty paths and the stability of control-perception

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015

This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underlay many idiosyncratic determinants of...

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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members' attitudes towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household...

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Evaluating the role of individual specific heterogeneity in the relationship between subjective health assessments and income

Fernández-Val, Iván; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Vella, Francis - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of income on an individual's subjective self-assessment of own health. We employ recently developed methods in the non linear panel data literature to account for the endogeneity of income and the presence of individual heterogeneity. We examine a panel data...

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Retaining through training : even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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