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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001

to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In … particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades. It also …

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How falsifiable is the collective model? : a new test with an application to monogamous and bigamous households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - 2015

that include more than two decision-makers (e.g., polygamous households, adult children). We investigate household …. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015

One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...

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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Mario; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using individual-level administrative data, covering the entire population. We also use unique data obtained from court records to analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates...

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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Does the stork deliver happiness? : parenthood and life satisfaction

Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...

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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

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Stochastic household forecasts by coherent random shares predictions

Keilman, Nico; Duin, Coen van - 2014 - This version 14 April 2014

We compute a stochastic household forecast for the Netherlands by the random share method. Time series of shares of … persons in nine household positions, broken down by sex and five-year age group for the years 1996-2010 are modelled by means … of time indices for each household position for men and women. We model these time indices as a Random Walk with Drift …

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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders

Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014

Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high …

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