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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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Socio-economic determinants of child marriage : evidence from the Iranian provinces
Asna-ashary, Mozhgan; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, … - 2020 - This version: 22.01.2020
We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419046
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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty
Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304704
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Paying for the selected son : sex imbalance and marriage payments in China
Xu, Yuanwei - 2021
This paper shows that the rising male surplus has strengthened marriage distortions in China by causing an increase in brideprice payments. The identification relies on comparison between siblings from the same natal family who are born in different birth years and thus exposed to various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336332
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Reflections on the impact of the association agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union on the economy of the national rural space
Certan, Simion; Certan, Ion - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 258-266). 2017
European authorities have given and increased attention to rural areas. Still in Agenda 2000, the European Commission has included "coherent sustainable rural development policies". Moldova is "condemned" to pay more attention to rural areas, as the majority of the population is located here....
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Family farm : solution for sustainable development of rural area
Dumitru, Eduard Alexandru; Petre, Laurenţiu Ionuţ - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 200-208). 2021
At present, in Romania there is no clear definition of the concept of family farm, and at the level of the European Union, the definition of family farms differs significantly depending on the characteristics of each country. At the same time, there is no classification of these types of farms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189164
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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231157
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Profiles of rural households in the North-East Development Region of Romania : case studies
Brumă, Ion Sebastian; Bohatereţ, Valentin Mihai; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 201-206). 2017
, livestock and human capital shape the particular features of each place and zone. The present study relies upon field research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854161
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Typhoon and agricultural production Portfolio empirical evidence for a developing economy
Thi Xuyen Tran - 2021
livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon. We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana … typhoon. While they decrease the area planted for staple crops, i.e., rice and cassava, they tend to purchase more livestock … livestock raising, which emphasizes the contraction of crop farming in the aftermath of this type of event. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332286
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International, European and Romanian developments related to the dairy cows : livestock and production obtained
Alecu, Ioan-Niculae; Nagy, Caroly; Szabo, Gyorgy; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 188-195). 2016
technologies. Over time, the evolution of livestock was different, according to the development level of countries located in … different geographical areas. While in areas such as North America and Europe, a decrease of livestock was noticed, at the same … Livestock Sector establishes clear objectives and priorities for its support. The analysis performed allows us to consider that …
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