Showing 1 - 10 of 715
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257700
In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109076
We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic … gender gap. Finally, different disciplines uncovered the common stylized fact that women are increasingly worse off during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110635
Standard Surveys for 1992/93 and 1997/98 to study the role of gender in these remittance flows, both from the perspective of … receiving and sending remittances. Knowing about gender differences will help to better explain the impact of remittances and to … understand the nature of gender roles during a time of economic transformation. We find important distinctions, such as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490469
growing gap. Most of this sorting is due to the initial choice in which program type to apply to. No gender differences arise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647249
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531921
We study the consequences of broader access to credit and capital markets on household decisions over the number of children. A model of the net reproduction rate is estimated on data from 78 countries over the period 1995{2010. Liquidity constraints are approximated by private credit and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109341
In this paper, we apply an Overlapping Generations (OLG) model with endogenous fertility and a pay as you go (PAYG) pension system to find out what are the economic consequences of different policy measures to increase the number of children. Especially, we take into account the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111252
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years—which increased the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey. We find that increased compulsory schooling years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258654
The paper using a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and child labour shows that any fiscal measures designed to benefit backward agriculture cannot cure the problem of child labour in a developing economy although they raise the non-child labour income of the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550547