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The Relation between Divorce and Wealth
Fr??dorf, Anna - 2011
fully explored. Marital splits constitute a potential shock in relation to wealth: divorce is likely to reduce wealth … consumption. To identify the relation between divorce and wealth in Germany, this study employs wealth data on the individual … histories. To account for the reversed causality between divorce and wealth, conditional difference-in-differences matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481019
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Do Multinational Enterprises Substitute Parent Jobs for Foreign Ones? Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data
Konings, Jozef; Murphey, Alan - 2001
Eastern Europe did not contribute to a relocation of domestic jobs to Central and Eastern Europe. Substitution effects do take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477468
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Firm relocation as adaptive response to climate change and weather extremes
Linnenluecke, Martina K.; Stathakis, Alexander; … - 2011
integrating firm relocation decisions into firm adaptive responses to climate change. The framework consists of three assessment … steps: the level of risk from climate change impacts at a firm's location, the feasibility of relocation, and associated … Victoria/Australia illustrates how the relocation (undergrounding) of cables could decrease the vulnerability of distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448861
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Computer simulations of developmental change: The contributions of working memory capacity and long-term knowledge
Jones, G; Gobet, F; Pine, JM - 2008
Increasing working memory (WM) capacity is often cited as a major influence on children’s development and yet WM capacity is difficult to examine independently of long-term knowledge. A computational model of children’s nonword repetition (NWR) performance is presented that independently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465505
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Risk of Exposure to and Mitigation of Effect of Aflatoxin on Human Health: A West African Example.
Cardwell, Kitty F.; Henry, Sara H. - 2004
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the relative risk of exposure of different human populations to food-borne aflatoxins; the types of health impact that may be incurred by dietary exposure to aflatoxins; and possible strategies likely to mitigate risks to human health. Risk of exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429577
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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973
Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981
The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439137
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Productivity Spillovers Within Families and Firms
Papps, Kerry Liam - 2008
Survey of Youth 1979 are used and three different methods for measuring the probability of marriage and divorce are employed …. Consistent with theoretical predictions, married women are found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This … relationship holds both over an individual's life-cycle and across people with different inherent risks of divorce. The second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466215
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
Giolito, Eugenio - 2010
I develop an equilibrium, a two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth, to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age of men and women at first marriage. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model, I show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475523
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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS
Reinhold, Steffen - 2008
In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429603