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Does Having a Newborn Child Affect Income Diversification Opportunities?: Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study

Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

describes the income diversification patterns of Peruvian households with young children (aged between 6 and 18 months … communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …

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Growing up together: Cohort composition and child investment

Jones, Kelly M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

children. Estimating within households, I instrument cohort characteristics with those of the nonsibling (exogenous) portion. I … find that children with larger (or more predominantly male) cohorts of vaccine-eligible age are significantly more likely … to receive immunization. These findings suggest that children with larger cohorts may be better off in terms of club …

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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives

Gelber, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...

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Social diversification, injustices, and Pareto optimality with non-binary preferences

Berdellima, Arian; Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We prove the existence of a Pareto optimal state of a finite society that has socially differentiated persons, each with non-binary personal preferences that quasi-order a finite set of alternatives. Everybody engages in a volitional act of choice by maximization of non-binary preferences. As a...

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Family and society in north-western Transylvania (2nd Half of the 19th century – beginning of the 20th century). General framework: concepts, methods and approaches

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in north-western Transylvania there was a traditional rural society, except for some urban centres and their neighbouring areas (the urban character is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The village...

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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin- American families: the importance of social norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country

Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...

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Effects of sex preference and social pressure on fertility in changing Japanese families

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … pre-war generation, if the first child was a daughter, the total number of children tended to increase not only when the …

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Sex selection and gender balance

Bhaskar, V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion externality. Medical innovations that facilitate...

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Where there is a will: Fertility behavior and sex bias in large families

Jain, Tarun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

reports that the sex ratio for children under six years of age is 927 girls per thousand boys, an outcome that has been …

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