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A U.S. Analysis of the Macro- and Micro-Economics of Family Formation: Marrying in the Great Recession and Prior Post-Industrial Recessions

Espinoza, C. Soledad - 2014

, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …

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The Effects of Early Retirement Incentives on Retirement Decisions

Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla - 2019

This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a reform in the German public pension system that allowed individuals with a long contribution history to retire without deductions before reaching the regular retirement age. Following the 2014 reform, individuals with 45 contribution years could...

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Old-age poverty: The household perspective : a microsimulation approach of pension entitlements in Germany

Finkler, Sebastian - 2019

Providing a decent living standard and preventing old-age poverty are the two major challenges of pension insurance schemes. Replacement rates below the poverty line despite many years of contribution represent a major challenge for public pension schemes with respect to the systems "raison...

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Should pensions be progressive? Yes, at least in Germany!

Kallweit, Manuel; Fehr, Hans; Kindermann, Fabian - 2011

Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population ageing might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...

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Can an Ageing Scotland Afford Independence?

Lisenkova, Katerina; Mérette, Marcel - 2014

The aim and scope of this paper is to isolate the effects of population ageing in the context of potential Scottish independence. Fiscal challenges are often quoted as a strong argument against independence. Demographic processes play an important role in determining future economic growth via...

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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas

Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007

implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …

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Education for All? Measuring Pro-Poor Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008

Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …

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Food price inflation and schooling

Grimm, Michael - 2008

an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …

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The impact of school lunches on school enrolment: Evidence from an exogenous policy change in India

Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing …

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Orphanhood and Critical Periods in Children's Human Capital Formation: Long-Run Evidence from North-Western Tanzania

Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …

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