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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling,...

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Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past

Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring income and living standards, we do not know how these...

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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Duflo, Esther - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...

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Poverty and Self-Control

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Ray, Debraj; Yeltekin, Sevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The absence of self-control is often viewed as an important correlate of persistent poverty. Using a standard … poverty damages the ability to exercise self-control. Our theory invokes George Ainslie's notion of "personal rules … assets above which personal rules support unbounded accumulation, and a second threshold below which there is a "poverty trap …

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households%u2019 responses to overseas members%u2019 economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work...

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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...

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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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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?

Caucutt, Elizabeth; Lochner, Lance; Park, Youngmin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...

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Time is Money: Life Cycle Rational Inertia and Delegation of Investment Management

Mitchell, Olivia; Kim, Hugh Hoikwang; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...

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The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Meghir, Costas; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph De; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...

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