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) which increased sanitation by 6.6 percent among households with marriage eligible children and generated an exogenous …This paper analyses the marriage decisions of men and women, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within …) and district level census, we show that exposure to TSC increased the probability of marriage for men and women, from …
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variation in child support liabilities driven by an important UK policy reform to separately identify the effects of children …'s income, compared to criteria based on aggregate incomes of both parents, would imply much smaller separation rates. …
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' 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 … eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls' education and this drives much of their …
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The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of...
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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....
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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...
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moments using longitudinal data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The results indicate that …
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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
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
inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …
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