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Costly Posturing : Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...
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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens : Comment
Stark, Oded - 2021
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
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Far Above Rubies : The Association between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda
Bishai, David; Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2021
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...
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Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources
Antman, Francisca - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R. - 2009
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...
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The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families
Calvi, Rossella; Penglase, Jacob; Tommasi, Denni; Wolf, Alex - 2021
The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may benefit from economies of scale in consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in...
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Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach
Betti, Gianni - 2017
This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...
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Remember When it Rained : The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination …
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China
Mu, Ren - 2014
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a...
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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China
Démurger, Sylvie - 2016
This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of remittances sent to rural households on...
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