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Dynamics of life course family transitions in Germany: Exploring patterns, process and relationships
Maurer, Raimond; Usman, Sehrish - 2023
This paper explores dynamics of family life events in Germany using discrete time event history analysis based on SOEP …
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The Bigger the Children, the Bigger the Worries: Are Preschoolers and Adolescents Affected Differently by Family Instability with Regard to Non-cognitive Skills?
Peter, Frauke H.; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2011
Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of … the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living … arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything about the stability of a family for a longer period. This paper …
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Effect of health insurance coverage on labor allocation: Evidence from US farm households
D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Khanal, Aditya R. - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 19, pp. 1-11
In the past three decades, farm families have relied on government payments and off-farm income to reduce income risk and increase total household income. Many studies have analyzed the role of government payments; however, little is known about the impact of health insurance coverage on labor...
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Response-based sampling for binary choice models with sample selection
Arezzo, Maria Felice; Guagnano, Giuseppina - In: Econometrics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
Sample selection models attempt to correct for non-randomly selected data in a two-model hierarchy where, on the first level, a binary selection equation determines whether a particular observation will be available for the second level (outcome equation). If the non-random selection mechanism...
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Understanding spatial heterogeneity in GB agricultural land-use for improved policy targeting
Saart, Patrick W.; Kim, Namhyun; Bateman, Ian - 2021
Today, one of the biggest challenges facing the UK is the new target set when the nation became first major economy to pass net zero emissions law, which requires the country to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. On the one hand, there are already a few ideas about how we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876017
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Sparse demand systems: Corners and complements
Lewbel, Arthur; Nesheim, Lars - 2019
We propose a demand model where consumers simultaneously choose a few different goods from a large menu of available goods, and choose how much to consume of each good. The model nests multinomial discrete choice and continuous demand systems as special cases. Goods can be substitutes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146397
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Supports for Working Families: Work and Care Policies across Welfare States
Gornick, Janet C.; Meyers, Marcia K. - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 13-18
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The Twin Instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653133
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Twin Birth and Maternal Condition
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931707
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The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
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