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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children

Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …

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Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation?

Lee, Byungkyu; Conley, Dalton - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Recently, the sex of child has been widely used as a natural experiment and shown to induce change of the allegedly stable political predisposition, however, prior results have been contradictory: in the U.K., researchers found that having daughters leads to parents favoring left-wing political...

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House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are … fertility. This applies to both potential first-time homeowners and current homeowners who might upgrade to a bigger house with …

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Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health

Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data limitations and methodological problems associated with the...

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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev; Romanov, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …

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Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

Tekin, Erdal; Walker, MaryBeth; Wallace, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also substantial evidence that smoking is a risk factor correlated with low birth weight. Low birth weight is a costly outcome in both the short and long term for parents, children,...

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Extended Families and Child Well-being

Thomas, Duncan; LaFave, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Whereas studies have established the intra-household distribution of resources affects allocation decisions, little is known about how these decisions are affected by the distribution of resources among co-resident and non co-resident extended family members. Drawing on theoretical models of...

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Time Varying Risk Aversion

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use a repeated survey of an Italian bank's clients to test whether investors' risk aversion increases following the 2008 financial crisis. We find that both a qualitative and a quantitative measure of risk aversion increases substantially after the crisis. After considering standard...

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Optimal Life Cycle Portfolio Choice with Variable Annuities Offering Liquidity and Investment Downside Protection

Mitchell, Olivia; Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We evaluate lifecycle consumption and portfolio allocation patterns resulting from access to Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB) variable annuities, one of the most rapidly-growing financial innovations over the last two decades. A key feature of these products is that they offer access...

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Trickle-Down Consumption

Bertrand, Marianne; Morse, Adair - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Have rising income and consumption at the top of income distribution since the early 1980s induced households in the lower tiers of the distribution to consume a larger share of their income? Using state-year variation in income level and consumption in the top first quintile or decile of the...

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