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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, Gijsbert van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

of a marriage of a daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the household from which she originates. We … distinguish household specific wealth levels and two types of shocks: correlated (weather) shocks and idiosyncratic (wealth … support the hypothesis that the timing of marriage is affected by household characteristics; girls from households that …

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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922

Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization: Togetherness or Material Benefits?

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...

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Marriage and the City

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners …

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Disentangling the Age, Period, and Cohort Effects using a Modeling Approach

Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Disentangling age, period, and cohort effects in explaining health trends is crucial to assess future prevalences of health disorders. The identification problem -- age, period, and cohort effects are perfectly linearly related -- is tackled by modeling cohort and period effects using lifetime...

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The Origins of Logistic Regression

Cramer, J.S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper describes the origins of the logistic function, its adoption in bio-assay, and its wider acceptance in statistics. Its roots spread far back to the early 19th century; the survival of the term logistic and the wide application of the device have been determined decisively by the...

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Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We exploit plot data from the agricultural module of the third Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS-3) to investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from using organic inputs on a larger scale. We approximate...

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Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Vigh, Melinda - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper considers a general class of stochastic dynamic choice models with discrete and continuous decision variables. This class contains a variety of models that are useful for modeling intertemporal household decisions under risk. Our examples are drawn from the field of development...

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Limitations on De-collectivisation in Central European Agriculture

Bezemer, Dirk J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...

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