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indicate that households that perceive an unemployment shock use children as a means for smoothing consumption. Regarding the … fertility in Indonesia, and assesses whether the investment in human capital of children and fertility are used to smooth … important lesson from our findings is that different types of income shock may lead to different economic and demographic …
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We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
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expenditure, the composition of expenditure is sensitive to the gender of the recipient of a rainfall shock. For example, rainfall …
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expenditure, the composition of expenditure is sensitive to the gender of the recipient of a rainfall shock. For example, rainfall …
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Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherin a state s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification...
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