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Productive inefficiency in patriarchal family farms: evidence from Mali
Goetghebuer, Tatiana - 2011
In Mali, there exist various farm-cum-family structures, so that agricultural production occurs on plots controlled by different members of the household. In this paper, we want to lay emphasis on the under-researched differentials between collective and individual plots (attended by male or...
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Do Couples Pool Their Income?
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...
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Family Decision-Making on International Migration
Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
international migration. Our survey reached 582 respondents with a Danish partner who was the same as before emigration. We model … that family migration decisions are usually a shared preference, but that they are often driven to a larger extent by the …
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Do Alimony Regulations Matter inside Marriage? Evidence from the 2008 Reform of the German Maintenance Law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...
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Bilateral Search with Horizontal Heterogeneity
Hofmann, Dirk; Qari, Salmai - 2010
We study a matching model with heterogenous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along a … equilibrium and study how matching occurs depending on the frictions in the market if income is exogenous. If the level of search … decide on their effort levels before they enter the matching market. …
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Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty
Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019
This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...
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Natural Disaster, Migration, and Regional Development
Ikazaki, Daisuke - 2015
economic activities and migration. Section 2 introduces a simple matching theory model based on previous studies. This theory …As described in this paper, a simple matching theory is constructed to ascertain how natural disasters affect regional …. Results show that once migration and a population drain occur, such fiscal policies might deteriorate the regional economy …
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Speaking the same language - The effect of foreign origin teachers on students’ language skills
Höckel, Lisa - 2019
Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training …
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It's not all about parents' education, it also matters what they do. Parents' employment and children's school success in Germany
Hoffmann, Malte; Boll, Christina - 2015
In this paper, we use GSOEP data to explore whether parents employment has an extra effect on the school achievement of their children, beyond the well-established effects of education, income and demography. First, we test whether the source of income or parents unemployment determine children...
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Rarely Enjoyed? A Count Data Analysis of Transit Ridership in Germany's Public Transport
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2010
Focusing on adult members of German households, this paper investigates the determinants of public transit ridership with the aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices, fares, person-level attributes, and characteristics of the transit system on transport counts over a five-day week. The...
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