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Savings, investments, debts and psychological well-being in married and cohabiting couples
Kan, Man-Yee; Laurie, Heather - 2010
This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in savings, investments and debts by couple members, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758928
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309090
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2015
introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294100
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533051
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Froebel's gifts : how the kindergarten movement changed the American family
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
opportunity costs for raising children. Indeed, we show that children exposed to kindergartens were less likely to work during … that exposure to kindergartens particularly helped immigrant children from non-English-speaking countries to gain English …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263702
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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
Apps, Patricia F.; Rees, Ray - 2021
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319460
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Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions : evidence from Britain and Germany
Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2014
individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413185
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Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions : evidence from Britain and Germany
Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2015
individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010497055
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Happy savers and happy spenders : an experimental study comparing US Americans and Germans
Zokaei Ashtiani, Amin; Dudek, Thomas; Rieger, Marc Oliver - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 85 (2020)
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Genuine savings and future well-being in Germany, 1850 - 2000
Blum, Matthias; McLaughlin, Eoin; Hanley, Nick - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353759