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This paper proposes a new estimator for cross section semiparametric regressions containing an unobserved binary random effect and applies it to alcohol consumption. The unobserved random effect (health-consciousness) explains a significant proportion of the otherwise unexplained variation in...
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Finland over the period 1993-2005. The data on individuals’ health that we are using originates from Health Behaviour and …
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The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co …-resident with their children. This paper, however, shows that a co-residency requirement upwardly biases the negative effects of … co-resident mothers in South Africa, not co-resident mothers are significantly more likely to be labour force …
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Africans in South Africa. Two-stage least squares estimation of the effects of childbearing on female labour force …
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The assumption we submit, because macroeconomic forcasts would be unperfect, is that behavioral equations doesn't enough describe economic behaviours through the capacity of reaction opposite to environment. Further, the forcaster belongs to his search-system, so that, may be, we must now...
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paper is aimed at testing whether or not there really was a change in pricing behaviour, using a structural model of …
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The study evaluates the behaviour construct of self help group (SHG) members. Data were solicited from randomly … and 2013. The behaviour construct developed, consisted of 30 items, for which Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of reliability … significant improvement in behaviour of SHG members was observed, which exemplifies the impact of SHG approach in instilling a …
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human health behaviour. We first discuss the theoretical background of time preferences; ascertain the differences between … assess how time preferences influence risky behaviour such as being overweight, smoking, and engaging in risky sexual … behaviour. The issue of whether to use proxies or experimental time preference elicitation methods in time preference studies is …
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Conceptual overview, critical commentary and future directions
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other vulnerable children (OVC). …
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