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Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we document changes in the availability of time and money in Canadian two-parent families between 1971 and 2006 as the paid work hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid...

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Distributive implications of fertility changes in Latin America

Badaracco, Nicolás; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, … - 2016

Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to microdata from national household surveys from seven...

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The impact of demographic dynamics on economic development, poverty and inequality in Mozambique

Klasen, Stephan; Woltermann, Silke - 2005

In this paper, we analyze whether current demographic dynamics in Mozambique are likely to reduce per capita growth and poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the...

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Population growth, economic growth, and poverty reduction in Uganda: Theory and evidence

Klasen, Stephan - 2005

This paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth in Uganda. After showing that Uganda has one of the highest population growth rates in the world which, due to the inherent demographic momentum, will persist for some time to come, it then considers the impact of...

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The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2020

We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive...

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The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters) between various combinations of school enrollment with different labor supply modalities and periods of school interruption devoted either to employment or home production and...

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The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study

Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: German Economic Review 21 (2020) 3, pp. 335-371

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...

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Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?

Hryshko, Dmytro; Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin - 2014

We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey of Income and Program Participation panels (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics....

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On the Importance of Fertility Behavior in School Finance Policy Design

Yılmaz, Kuzey - 2014

To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and the rich because it affects the human capital investment through the child quantity-quality tradeoff of children. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium in which parents choose...

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Does it pay to say "I do"? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021

show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

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