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Recent cohorts in various developed countries take a longer time to form their own household and display lower rates of … the causal link between sharp changes in the risk of job loss and the timing of different forms of household formation … contracts between 1997 and 2009. Using data from the 2002-2014 waves of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances, we document …
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pension reforms led to an increase in the household savings rate in Germany until about 2010. As domestic investment …
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The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who … earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource …'s individual budgets - pocket money. This unique data set allows for the specification of the simultaneous process of household …
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Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can …. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, a household labor market specialization index is created. Raw two-limit Tobit …
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Inflation expectations of households and firms are central determinants in all dynamic macro models. Yet, empirical evidence suggests these decision makers form expectations in a way that deviates from the assumptions in these models: on average, inflation expectations are biased upwards, are...
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Economic theories of the household and the marriage market provide potential explanations for differences in household … develop a partial equilibrium model that formally incorporates social effects on a woman's decision to enter a household …. Social effects are modeled as gender roles that constrain potential partners away from the efficient allocation of household …
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Local amenities are an important factor in the location choice of households. Heterogeneity in preferences of households tends to sort households over different locations which satisfy best their preferences given their constraints. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cultural heritage on...
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This paper empirically examines life satisfaction in Benedictine monasteries in Germany from the perspective of happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to...
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