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Mortality Risks, Education and Child Labour

Baland, Jean-Marie; Estevan, Fernanda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the role of young adult mortality on child labour and educational decisions. We argue that mortality risks are a major source of risks in returns to education in developing countries. We show that, in the absence of appropriate insurance mechanisms, the level of...

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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...

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Household Saving and Full Consumpyion Over the Life Cycle.

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of the life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of direction.

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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

This paper presents for the .rst time the properties of optimal piece-wise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage di¤erences, variation in prices of bought-in...

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Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Van Der Klaauw, Wilbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...

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Land Reforms and Economic Development

Gersbach, Hans; Siemers, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

inequality among the poor is unavoidable. Finally, a successful land reform allows for the transition of a society from an …

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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …

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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high … economics from transition economics. …

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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

This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to...

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