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Women, children and patience : experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …
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India's calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of calorie purchases
Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020
, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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Epidemic exposure, financial technology, and the digital divide
Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of...
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Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaptation
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
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The marital satisfaction of differently-aged couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...
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What women want (their men to do) : housework and satisfaction in Australian households
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2017
The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...
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Locus of control and marital satisfaction : couple perspectives using Australian data
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019
We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates whether one believes that one's outcomes are more under...
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Are the upwardly-mobile more Left-wing?
Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023
It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and...
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