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relative to the price of women’s time over the post-war period, substitutionaway from women’s household work is a major factor …
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This paper examines the aggregate demand for inputs, including housework and otherservices, used by the US household … housework substitutes and household appliance servicesare shown to be better substitutes for men’s housework than for women …'s housework. Also, men’sunpaid housework, household transportation input, recreation input, and “other inputs” are luxurygoods …
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demand as a function of both the physical water quality at 131 lakes in the state and household perceptions of lake water …
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The chapter focuses on household production theory and models for non-agriculturalhouseholds, largely in developed … countries. The objectives of the paper are: (1) to presentseveral types of microeconomic models of household decision making and … from household production theory for a household input demand system fitted tounique data on the US household sector over …
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In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farmsgrouped into each of four regions—North, Northeast, East, and Southwest—over 1995-1999.These frontier production functions are shown to have statistically different structures, and themarginal product...
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[...]In this paper, we first provide background information onprogram expenditures and a brief review of the literature. Next,we describe the housing provided under each program and ourmethodology for estimating costs. We then present our totalcost estimates along with estimates of the share of...
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household demand for residential energy in Ghana, using GLSS 7 data, the multivariate probit model, and the Quadratic Almost …, electricity, and kerosene. The results show that the demand for all household energy fuels in Ghana was significantly influenced … by price, income, and social demographic factors. Household demand for electricity and LPG fuels are income elastic with …
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