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provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …
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In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main …
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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This paper documents the role of the collateral lending channel to facilitate small business starts and self-employment in the period before the financial crisis of 2008. We document that between 2002 and 2007 areas with a bigger run up in house prices experienced a strong increase in employment...
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...
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, we quantify the extent to which the self employed systematically underreport their income to U.S. household surveys. To … their expenditures to household surveys. We show that failing to account for such income underreporting leads to biased … provide unbiased information to household surveys when they are simultaneously providing distorted information to other …
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Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This paper first documents that...
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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