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document the scope of the main means-tested programs for households headed by working-age adults. We report key features of …
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This paper examines how women's fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth using six experiments conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contrary to predictions that an increase in female earnings raises the opportunity cost of childbearing and that this will lower...
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considers relative earnings disparities within households. We provide empirical evidence supporting our model's predictions …
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This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a … Samuelson. This nests as special cases the objective functions used in currently popular models of households engaged in one …
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This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households …
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …
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We explore the micro-foundations of fragility by discussing how to measure the exposure to fragility at the individual level. We focus on two notions that are not covered by existing aggregate, state-centric indicators of fragility. First, different individuals may experience fragility very...
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We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation … evidence that this is likely driven by the fact that Dutch households seem to become more pessimistic about their real income …
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We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information … dispersed than households', consistent with higher information frictions among households. Second, the degree of dispersion and … the distance from expert forecasts varies more across groups of households than across groups of firms. Third, firms …
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