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Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses

Kalenkoski, Charlene - 2014

Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...

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Instrumental Variables : An Econometrician's Perspective

Imbens, Guido - 2014

I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I …

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The Analysis of Prison-Prisoner Data Using Cluster-Sample Econometrics : Prison Conditions and Prisoners' Assessments of the Future

Entorf, Horst - 2016

The study investigates whether and how strong prison conditions contribute to the perceived propensity to recidivate after controlling for personal characteristics and criminal background. In order to combine different sources of information on personal characteristics of prison inmates and...

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A New View on Panel Econometrics : Is Probit Feasible after All?

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2015

Mundlak (1978) proposed the addition of time averages to the usual panel equation in order to remove the fixed effects bias. We extend this Mundlak equation further by replacing the time-varying explanatory variables by the corresponding deviations from the averages over time, while keeping the...

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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced Versus Decision Utility

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences …

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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022

Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...

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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010

individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members …Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … discusses another alternative: independent individual models of decision-making that don't make any specific assumptions of …

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Bargaining Over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Doepke, Matthias - 2016

It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...

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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Sutter, Matthias - 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur : The Case of Income Comparisons

Clark, Andrew E. - 2015

these two sets of results. This kind of validation of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility …

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