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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies

Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021

Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …

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The Value of Commitment: Marriage Choice in the Presence of Costly Divorce

Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Two individuals may choose to enter a coresidential relationship, which may or may not include joint property ownership and raising children. In addition to that, individuals may decide to formalize this contractual relationship by holding a marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential...

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Income, gender and consumption: A study of Malawian households

Davies, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper uses 1998 household level data from urban Malawi to look at the impact on consumption patterns of the share of total household income accruing to different individuals within the household. Specifically, male and female income shares and other factors which may influence...

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Fertility and pension systems

Rizzo, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In the last century, state pension systems have been introduced in most countries, and since then their size has been significantly increasing. A broad literature has studied this phenomenon, developing models that explain why pension systems exist and have been continuously expanding. At the...

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Matching Markets with N-Dimensional Preferences

Flanders, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R^n --and agents prefer matches that are closer to them according to a distance metric on this set (horizontal preferences). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the...

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Costly Divorce and Marriage Rates

Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are modeled explicitly as unilateral, that is, it takes the...

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Institutions, Family and Economic Performance

Cid, Alejandro; Viana, Luis; Presno, Ignacio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

It is usual to formulate policies that react on the consequences, not the causes of family structure. In the design of policies, it is important to consider that institutions evolve in response to individual incentives and affect the performance of political and economic systems. Formal rules...

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How Would your Kids Vote if I Open my Doors? Evidence from Venezuela

Rodriguez, Francisco; Wagner, Rodrigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

For how long does cultural heritage persist? Do the culturally inherited values of immigrants dilute as generations pass? We answer these question by studying the relationship between revealed political behavior of immigrant families and the culture of the place where they migrated from, either...

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Intergenerational Time Transfers and Internal Migration: Accounting for Low Spatial Mobility in Southern Europe

Mendez, Ildefonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the hypothesis that living close to grandparents is optimal for Southern European young couples with children in which the wife works given the combination of, on the one hand, substantial help �ows in the form of grandparenting and, on the other hand, the shortage in the...

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The quantitative role of child care for female labor force participation and fertility

Bick, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to...

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