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Parent Altruism, Cash Transfers and Child Poverty
Bhalotra, Sonia - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2004
that this provides information on parental altruism which, though commonly assumed, has been challenged in recent research …. The main finding is that the within-household allocation of resources is consistent with altruism. A further finding is … that households that smoke (spend on tobacco) systematically spend less on children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022150
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Social interactions and stigmatized behavior : "donating" blood plasma in rural China
Chen, Xi; Sahn, David E.; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare, largely due to the formidable challenges of collecting data on stigmatized goods and services. In this paper, we add to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816718
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A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, and a positive relationship between income and longevity. This is puzzling for standard dynamic models. For instance, altruistic models that use the most standard preferences in macro --time separable...
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Urban Migration and Social Exclusion : Study from Indore Slums and Informal Settlements
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report
Tanner, Michael - 2022
COVID-19 has been a tragedy for California. More than 4 million Californians have contracted the disease, and over 64,000 have died from it. And beyond the cost of illness and death, the pandemic and the state’s actions to contain it have devastated California’s economy. Low-income and...
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How Child Labor and Child Schooling Interact with Adult Labor
Ray, Ranjan - 2014
The link between household poverty and child labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru. Providing good schools in South Asia could help reduce child labor. The link between child labor and adult labor markets varies with gender. Using data from Peruvian and Pakistani household surveys, Ray...
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel S.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel; Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575652
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel; Verhoogen, Eric A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761805
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791330