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Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk

Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Gervais, Martin - 2009

We document that home ownership of households with heads aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001{2005 housing boom. The 1980{2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...

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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia

Mesnard, Alice - 2009

This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence. By matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for the evaluation of the 'Familias en Acción' welfare...

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Differential mortality in the UK

Attanasio, Orazio; Emmerson, Carl - 2001

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and...

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Giving children a better start: Pre-school attendance and school-age profiles

Berlinski, Samuel; Galiani, Sebastian; Manacorda, Marco - 2006

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information on preschool attendance in the context of a rapid expansion in the supply of preprimary places....

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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment, permitting us to construct gender- and...

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Financial implications of relationship breakdown: Does marriage matter?

Fisher, Hayley; Low, Hamish - 2012

marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

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Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education

Andrew, Alison; Adams, Abi - 2022

' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of … receiving high-quality marriage offers in the future and how this varies with age and education. We identify this model by …

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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls' trajectories: Evidence from a field experiment in India

Andrew, Alison; Krutikova, Sonya; Smarrelli, Gabriela; … - 2022

trial led to a reduction in school dropout and early marriage. We see large improvements in girls' mental health but only in …

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