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How Do Parents Allocate Time?
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - 2008
of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across …
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Are Urban Children really healthier?
van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; van Vuuren, Aico - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
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The Effect of the Theo Van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that general attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by the murder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777792
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization: Modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting
Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021
This paper develops a model of healthcare demand to study healthcare choices in resourcelimited settings with poor health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the entire portfolio of locally available providers, we...
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How do Parents allocate Time ?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - 2008
of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325841
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; van Ommeren, Jos - 2004
We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specificationdistinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompassesthe lagged-adjustment specification that is...
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What explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality — Household or Community Characteristics?
van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van - 2007
The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Western...
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