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Sanitation and Marriage Markets in India : Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign
Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan Pablo; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2022
This paper analyses the marriage decisions of men and women, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within …) which increased sanitation by 6.6 percent among households with marriage eligible children and generated an exogenous …) and district level census, we show that exposure to TSC increased the probability of marriage for men and women, from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324360
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Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: Panel data evidence for Britain
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005
This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292936
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Child support liability and partnership dissolution
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2004
This paper studies the determinants of partnership dissolution and focuses on the role of child support. We exploit the variation in child support liabilities driven by an important UK policy reform to separately identify the effects of children from the effect of child support liability. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292968
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Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment
Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005
This paper uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. We find evidence of small labour supply effects for two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293093
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The dynamics of domestic violence: Learning about the match
Anderberg, Dan; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2018
We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028666
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Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment
Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005
This paper uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. We find evidence of small labour supply effects for two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037527
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Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: panel data evidence for Britain
Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005
This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509484
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Better prepared for retirement? Using panel data to improve wealth estimates of ELSA respondents
Banks, James; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2007
This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293077
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Nutrition, information, and household behaviour: Experimental evidence from Malawi
Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2014
Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331014
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Household responses to information on child nutrition: Experimental evidence from Malawi
Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2012
This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331025