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Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia

Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - 2009

The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...

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Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies

Rieckmann, Johannes P. - 2014

Die Dissertation mit dem Titel “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” beinhaltet die Ergebnisse ökonometrischer Wirkungsevaluierungen, die innerhalb zwei verschiedener Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs-...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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