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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks
Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022
We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A … month with an average temperature above 30 °C implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in …
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214862
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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation Under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055994
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Fertility and Family Time Allocation
Tiefenthaler, Jill - 2008
Small children, especially infants, are very time intensive. Consequently, as total household time in child care increases after a birth, the time spent in other activities (market work, housework, leisure) must decline. While several studies have examined the relationship between fertility and...
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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Peer effects in sexual initiation : separating demand and supply mechanisms
Richards-Shubik, Seth - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 663-702
Most work on social interactions studies a single, composite effect of interactions within a group. Yet in the case of sexual initiation, there are two distinct social mechanisms-peer-group norms and partner availability-with separate effects and different potential interventions. Here I develop...
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Intra-day electricity demand and temperature
McCulloch, James; Ignatieva, Ekaterina - In: The energy journal 41 (2020) 3, pp. 161-181
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