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Sanitation and Marriage Markets in India : Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign

Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan Pablo; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2022

This paper analyses the marriage decisions of men and women, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within …) which increased sanitation by 6.6 percent among households with marriage eligible children and generated an exogenous …) and district level census, we show that exposure to TSC increased the probability of marriage for men and women, from …

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Exploring the returns to scale in food preparation: Baking penny buns at home

Crossley, Thomas F.; Lu, Yuqian - 2005

We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients. They also devote more time to food preparation. These observations (1) are consistent with a simple model with home production, returns to scale in the time input to food...

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Consume now or later? Time inconsistency, collective choice and revealed preference

Adams, Abi; Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Verriest, … - 2014

In this paper, we develop a revealed preference methodology that allows us to explore whether time inconsistencies in household choice are the product of individual preference nonstationarities or the result of individual heterogeneity and renegotiation within the collective unit. An empirical...

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Exploring the returns to scale in food preparation (baking penny buns at home)

Crossley, Thomas; Lu, Yuqian - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

<p>We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients. They also devote more time to food preparation. These observations (1) are consistent with a simple model with home production, returns to scale in the time input to food...</p>

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Consumption inequality and intra-household allocations

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - 2007

The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of...

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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net

Low, Hamish W.; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2018

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms … (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and …

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Child support liability and partnership dissolution

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2004

This paper studies the determinants of partnership dissolution and focuses on the role of child support. We exploit the variation in child support liabilities driven by an important UK policy reform to separately identify the effects of children from the effect of child support liability. We...

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Estimating a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction

Alessie, Rob; Crossley, Thomas F.; Hildebrand, Vincent - 2006

We estimate a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the larger end of the range of estimates reported in the...

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Household sharing and commitment: Evidence from panel data on individual expenditures and time use

Lise, Jeremy; Yamada, Ken - 2014

In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of...

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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio; Carneiro, Pedro M.; … - 2016

This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...

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