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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688539
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 1-2
The second issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) contains six articles largely related to the general theme of productivity growth in the new economy. Topics covered are the determinants of trends in the living standards...
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The Psychology of Poverty : Where Do We Stand?
Haushofer, Johannes; Salicath, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In recent years, the psychological causes and consequences of poverty have received renewed attention from scientists and policymakers. In this review, we summarize new developments in this literature. First, we discuss advances in our understanding of the relationship between income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447298
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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791799
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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008 - This Version: November 16, 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779148
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505849
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Trade shocks and the provision of local public goods
Feler, Leo; Senses, Mine Zeynep - 2016
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543193
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Dividend taxes and investment during the U.S. Great Depression
Jiang, Lunan - In: Economics letters 167 (2018), pp. 147-151
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Explaining the evolution of the U.S. housing market
Seok, Byoung Hoon; You, Hye Mi - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 23 (2019) 2, pp. 568-589
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126617