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This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES)to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items...
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unique, nationally representative household panel data set from rural Mexico. Households that participate in whole-household …Whole-household migration potentially can alter the results of studies on income inequality based on panel data if it … selects on household income. We model whole-household migration and its impacts on income inequality and poverty using a …
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...
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This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
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