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behavior. We find that a one percentage point increase in job loss risk increases liquid savings by roughly 1.2 - 2.0 percent …
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This article addresses the allocation of Polish household savings that are invested in financial assets. As an economic … category, these savings are very important in every country because they determine investments in the national economy, thereby … personal savings and their structure is essential because they change due to changing economic circumstances, changing …
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This article addresses the allocation of Polish household savings that are invested in financial assets. As an economic … category, these savings are very important in every country because they determine investments in the national economy, thereby … personal savings and their structure is essential because they change due to changing economic circumstances, changing …
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A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of...
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their immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary diversity …
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Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
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This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration. We use rich survey data from Mexico to estimate the impact of sibship size, birth order and sibling composition on teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no...
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Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP), in 2002. The SP targeted individuals not covered by Social Security and broke the link between...
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Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP), in 2002. The SP targeted individuals not covered by Social Security and broke the link between...
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