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Unpacking Household Engel Curves
De Vreyer, Philippe - 2020
degrees and directions depending on the type of commodity. The main source of bias is a household effect on sub …-household spending behavior, though this is partially offset by a bias due to intra-household inequality, which emerges as a confounder …
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Environmental Engel Curves
Levinson, Arik - 2015
Environmental Engel curves (EECs) plot the relationship between households' incomes and the pollution embodied in the goods and services they consume. They provide a basis for estimating the degree to which observed environmental improvements, which come in part from changing consumption...
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Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?
Logan, Trevon D. - 2008
A recent literature has advanced the use of Engel curves to estimate overall CPI bias. In this paper, I show that the … methodology is sensitive to the modeling of household demography. Existing estimates of CPI bias do not account for the changing … effect of household size on budget shares, and this can lead to omitted variable bias. Since the effect of household size on …
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Is the Japanese Extended Family Altruistically Linked? A Test based on Engel Curves
Hayashi, Fumio - 1995
Altruism has the well-known neutrality implication that the family's demand for commodities is invariant to the division of resources within the family. We test this by estimating Engel curves on a cross-section of Japanese extended families forming two- generation households. We find that the...
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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and...
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The Governance of Non-Profits and their Social Impact : Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Fangwa, Anicet; Flammer, Caroline; Huysentruyt, Marieke; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How can non-profit organizations improve their governance to increase their social impact? This study examines the effectiveness of a bundle of governance mechanisms - consisting of social performance-based incentives combined with auditing and feedback - in the context of a randomized...
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On The Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps : Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases
Lavy, Victor - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers' gender biases on boys' and girls' academic achievements during middle and high school and on the choice of advanced level courses in math and sciences during high school. For identification, we rely on the random assignments of...
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
Case, Anne - 1999
We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...
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Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital : Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
McCaig, Brian; Nguyen, Minh; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff reductions across industries associated with the BTA...
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Inefficient Automation
Beraja, Martin; Zorzi, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes worker displacement seriously. We recognize that displaced workers face two frictions in practice: reallocation is slow and borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions...
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