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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 …
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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 …
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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,...
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Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal …
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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...
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. 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 …
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This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour … rises sharply with the amount of non collateral based borrowing. The household members jointly choose time paths of time use …, consumption and saving over their life cycle in the face of this capital market imperfection. This model explains the data much …
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centrally important the relationship between productivity in household production and female labour supply really is, and how … importance of household production. In this paper we try to show how a simple model of household production can be used to help … guidance on this issue, resting as it does on models of the single person household. An old insight in the earlier public …
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This paper extends the standard model of the life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of direction.
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The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household …. The first step in the exposition is to show that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior …, in both developed and developing economies, can be traced to unrealistic assumptions on domestic production and the …
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