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paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given … that the role of household production as a coping mechanism may vary by poverty status. We use the 2003-12 American Time …. Our findings reveal that the changes in men's and women's unpaid work time indeed varied by poverty status. In particular …
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Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due …, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women during the Great … Recession. Using the 2003-12 American Time Use Survey, we find that these changes indeed varied by poverty status. In particular …
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This paper examines earnings management dynamics in the airline industry around the industry deregulation of 1978. The … whereas internal corporate governance systems are sluggish at adapting to the newly changed environment, the magnitude of … earnings management is expected to increase in the post-deregulation period. As corporate governance structures become more …
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Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a … under cost-of-service regulation. I then show that the drop in the price of coal is associated with a reallocation of …
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Although the allocative efficiency benefits of competition are a tenet of microeconomic theory, the relation between competition and technical efficiency is less well understood. Neoclassical models of profit-maximization subsume static cost-minimizing behavior regardless of market...
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from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …
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of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …
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mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However …, estimation of transition matrices is complicated by the well-acknowledged problem of measurement error in self-reported and even … via transition matrices while formally accounting for measurement error in a reasonably trans- parent manner. To do so, we …
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