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Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child labor. While as expected child labor at both the extensive and the intensive margin is a result of...
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We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...
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Using a representative sample of more than 11,000 households from eight Eu-ropean countries, this paper empirically studies the factors related to household electricity contract switching by distinguishing between households that switched contracts but stayed with the same supplier (internal...
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precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group. The second utilizes the inverse Engel curve to estimate good … tracks aggregate village cash-in-hand, suggesting some form of coordinated precautionary savings. But there is considerable …
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affects the saving behavior of the subjects. Savings are higher when they are incentivized with matching contributions than …
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