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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income

Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008

This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...

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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis

Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012

This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...

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Welfare and Labor Earnings: An Evaluation of the Financial Gains to Work

Gurgand, Marc; Margolis, David N. - 2002

-employment available in January 1998 to families in France that received the Guaranteed Minimum Income (RMI) in December 1996. Based on …

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How do parents allocate time? The effects of wages and income

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid...

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The measurement of child costs: a rothbarth-type method consistent with scale economies

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2009

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...

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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France

Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel … migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …

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Does fertility respond to financial incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - 2008

fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …

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