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Stochastic household forecasts by coherent random shares predictions
Keilman, Nico; Duin, Coen van - 2014 - This version 14 April 2014
We compute a stochastic household forecast for the Netherlands by the random share method. Time series of shares of persons in nine household positions, broken down by sex and five-year age group for the years 1996-2010 are modelled by means of the Hyndman-Booth-Yasmeen product-ratio variant of...
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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …
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Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married
Mundra, Kusum - 2018
There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908894
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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018
There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925156
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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018
There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129934
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A spouse and a house are all we need? : housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle
Rock, Bram de; Kovaleva, Mariia; Potoms, Tom - 2023
To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using...
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Marriage, work and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a …
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Marriage, work, and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019
coming from families above a poverty threshold. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129346
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Educated Couples’ Location Choice and Intra-Household Bargaining
Forouzandeh, Ramin - 2023
attractive for households, relative to the same increase in expected wages for wives. More importantly, this gap monotonically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349399
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
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