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The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants

Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …

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When Do Nations Tax? The Adoption of Property Tax Codes by First Nations in Canada

Feir, Donn. L.; Jones, Maggie E. C.; Scoones, David - 2022

Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of …

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Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Holzmann, Robert; Ayuso, Mercedes; Alaminos, Estefanía; … - 2019

The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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An Analysis of the Processes of Labour Market Exclusion and (Re-) Inclusion

Rosholm, Michael - 2001

In this paper we analyze the processes of labour market exclusion and (re-) inclusion, using a Danish register-based data set covering the period 1981-1990. The analysis is performed by estimation of reduced form transition models, the parameters of which are interpreted within the framework of...

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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002

After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...

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Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...

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Skill uncertainty and social inference

Oxoby, Robert J. - 2007

Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper explores occupational choices when individuals receive imprecise signals regarding ability and use the...

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An economic analysis of identity and career choice

Knoth Humlum, Maria; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Skyt … - 2007

Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and...

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