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Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia
Mesnard, Alice (contributor) - 2009
matching detailed retrospective data on violence levels in Colombian rural municipalities with a household survey collected for … evidence using household shocks and wealth confirm that liquidity constraints play a large role in explaining such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882425
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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household … experiments have been incorporated into various panel studies or are soon to be introduced. In the UK, the household panel study …, the new LISS household panel study launched in 2006 with over 5,000 households will be used for the testing of innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963260
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A longitudinal analysis of violence and housing insecurity
Diette, Timothy M.; Ribar, David C. - 2015
Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the safety of a home or placing them in compromised circumstances. This study uses national, prospective,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376249
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Cultural heritage and the location choice of Dutch households in a residential sorting model
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543251
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Sorting based on amenities and income composition : evidence on the multiplier effect
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2013
Recent research shows that urban heritage can be an important factor of residential location choice, and that especially highly educated households are attracted by the presence of cultural heritage. In this paper, we use a location choice model to investigate the attractiveness of neighborhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553821
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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419016
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Should i stay or should i go? : sibling effects in household formation
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2014
parents. Findings indicate that policy makers should target the household rather the individual, and combine policies for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457822
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Sorting based on urban heritage and income : evidence from the Amsterdam metropolitan area
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2015
Urban heritage is often concentrated in conservation areas with a protected status. Previous research argues that urban heritage attracts especially higher educated households who are likely to have higher incomes. The presence of these households may have a further impact on the attractiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484885
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Economic outcomes for transgender people and other gender minorities in the United States : first estimates from a nationally representative sample
Carpenter, Christopher; Lee, Maxine J.; Nettuno, Laura - 2022
the United States using nationally representative data from the Household Pulse Survey. We find that transgender women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168059
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The Risk of Job Loss, Household Formation and Housing Demand : Evidence from Differences in Severance Payments
Barcelo, Cristina - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895412