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Overinvestment in Marriage-Specific Capital
Donni, Olivier - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2012
over time. This is what we call "bargaining risk". To reduce this risk, the spouses may decide to over-invest in marriage … outside opportunities. This strat- egy is shown to be optimal. More suprisingly, over-investment in marriage- specific capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542032
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
capital ; consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688539
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505849
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The causes of Japan's 'lost decade': The role of household consumption
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006
stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s and find that the stagnation of household disposable income, the decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332277
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023770
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IS imbalances and current account surpluses in Japan : in memory of Professor Ronald I. McKinnon
Horioka, Charles - 2015
persistent current account surpluses were due primarily to Japan's large and persistent IS imbalances (the excess of saving over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311745
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Limited self-control and long-run growth
Strulik, Holger - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223100
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The theory of life-cycle saving and investing
Bodie, Zvi (contributor); Treussard, Jonathan (contributor);  … - 2007
allocation for a mandatory retirement saving plan? We believe that the life-cycle model developed by economists over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003713614
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824853