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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
Chamon, Marcos - 2010
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U … households, respectively, to raise their saving rates. These two factors account for over half of the increase in China's urban …
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Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2021
This paper revisits the causes behind child labor supply by focusing on an aspect that has received little attention: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical model and empirically test for this causality using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249127
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Household Income Mobility in India : 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest)...
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128568
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The Feldstein-Horioka puzzle and capital mobility : a review
Coakley, Jerry - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 3 (1998) 2, pp. 169-188
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Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in … the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … market in China – affects their fathers' smoking behavior. We utilize two household longitudinal surveys as well as a random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952611
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962277
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2018
-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China …
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How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households
Zhang, Junsen; Fei, Shulan; Wen, Yanbing - 2023
-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful …
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Rural credit and agricultural production : empirical evidence from Brazil
Nascimento, Daniel Henrique; Gutiérrez, Carlos Enrique … - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 28 (2023) 4, pp. 4236-4245
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