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An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick,...
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of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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time and employment duration (Imbens (1994)), and estimate the model using personnel data from a large Dutch aircraft …
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could …
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Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans … report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time …. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates (price of time) will lead to substitution of grazing for primary eating …
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that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including … welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The effects of time limits depend on the stock of remaining months of … eligibility, which in turn depends on the state time limit and on family's welfare use since the policy was implemented. Since the …
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We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …
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time. …
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