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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man’s human capital, and the lower the woman’s human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123619
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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation
Blundell, Richard William; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are … discrete choices, censoring of hours and non-participation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour … wage structure between men and women in the UK over the last two decades we estimate a collective labour supply model for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504396
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Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions where commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure through both formal contracts and informal agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504414
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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer
Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504741
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498067
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Mortality Risks, Education and Child Labour
Baland, Jean-Marie; Estevan, Fernanda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
. Uncertain returns to education, endogenous mortality or imperfect capital markets unambiguously increase child labour. When the …In this paper, we investigate the role of young adult mortality on child labour and educational decisions. We argue … absence of appropriate insurance mechanisms, the level of child labour is inefficient, but it can be too high or too low. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498071
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165653
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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of in- dividuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083579
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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income
Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083821
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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices … using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a … sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each spouse's characteristics, household characteristics, and background …
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