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conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …
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a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show …
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We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
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monetary transfer is targeted to women and a local random assignment into the AFAM-PE which exogenously changed the intra-household … taking greater (perceived) responsibility for decisions in specific spheres of household expenditures. In conclusion … increase in women's control over household resources, offering suggestive considerations for the ongoing debate in developing …
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Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the program anymore. We compare the ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs on labor income. We use an experiment where low-income individuals are...
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sample of married and cohabitating couples from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey (HILDA). We use …
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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...
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The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further … measures are strongly related to each partner's perceived fairness of the division of household tasks. In stage two, we predict …
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This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …
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This paper considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in … Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on individual-specific necessities and … hardship reporting where each partner has a distinct utility function and household decisions are assumed to be Pareto …
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