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Equality-efficiency trade-off within French and German couples : a comparative experimental study ; conference paper
Couprie, Hélène; Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; … - 2013
We present the results of an experiment that measures social preferences within couples in a context where intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342891
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Illusion of expertise in portfolio decisions : an experimental approach
Fellner, Gerlinde; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001
Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408429
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280834
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes : Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco - 2006
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783574
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007148
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992872
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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802026
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Non-Market Time and Household Well-Being
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2005
household incomes that retain the level of well-being across different family types, distinguished by family size and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064160
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
Using household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2012, we employ an instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimate fuel price and efficiency elasticities. The aim is to gauge the relative impacts of fuel economy standards and fuel taxes on distance traveled. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192927