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Do Rounding-Off Heuristics Matter? Evidence from Bilateral Bargaining in the U.S. Housing Market
Mateen, Haaris; Qian, Franklin; Zhang, Ye; Zheng, Tianxiang - 2023
Using confidential offer-level data on the US housing market, this paper examines the rounding-off heuristics in the bilateral bargaining process. We demonstrate that home sellers and home buyers follow different rounding-off heuristics. While sellers' list prices cluster more frequently around...
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The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023
administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276962
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The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023
administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275980
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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy - 2023
administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350643
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Do Higher Rents Discourage Fertility? Evidence from US Cities, 1940-2000
Simon, Curtis J.; Tamura, Robert - 2008
fertility using U.S. Census data over the period 1940-2000. This correlation is not spurious, nor does it reflect the tendency … results reflect the sorting of married couples across metropolitan areas on desired fertility. The relationship between the … unit price of living space and fertility in fact tends to be more negative for households that have moved recently. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219954
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The Effect of Financial Resources on Homeownership, Marriage, and Fertility : Evidence from State Lotteries
Bulman, George; Goodman, Sarena; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
not increase the likelihood existing marriages are preserved. Fertility is modestly accelerated by a lottery win, but … there is little effect on total fertility. Our results support a causal pathway behind differences in homeownership and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477235
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Household expenditures, wages, rents
Davis, Morris A.; Ortalo-Magné, François - 2007
is constant over time and across U.S. metropolitan areas (MSA). Consistent with this observation, we consider a basic … model in which identical households with Cobb-Douglas preferences for housing and numeraire consumption choose an MSA in …
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On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of tied transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the demonstration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293715
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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291387
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Fathers' leave, fathers' involvement and child development : are they related? ; evidence from four OECD countries
Huerta, Maria del Carmen; Adema, Willem; Baxter, Jennifer; … - 2013
Previous research has shown that fathers taking some time off work around childbirth, especially periods of leave of 2 or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities than fathers who do not do so. Furthermore, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are...
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