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by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …
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low-educated families with children. We then develop and estimate a household search model that incorporates the pre …
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This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
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We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...
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against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … investigating household responses, and the self-employment margin, to fully understand the effects of trade shocks …
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primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate this higher inflation. Are household inflation expectations sensitive …
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We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation. The resulting exogenously generated variation in inflation expectations is used to assess how expectations affect subsequent monthly consumption decisions relative to those in a...
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. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …
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electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …
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unobserved household heterogeneity. We find that a clean-break with the use of traditional fuels is less likely in rural areas …, but more probable in urban areas. The household characteristics (e.g. income, education) that are positively correlated … paved road is an important determinant for rural household adopting clean fuel, and there exists evidence of social …
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