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Intra-Household Work Timing : The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011
that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183413
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Intra-Household Work Time Synchronization - Togetherness or Material Benefits?
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte - 2005
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in … order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects …. Finally, partners coordinate their work schedules in order to have more joint leisure time, which is evidence for togetherness …
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Pension Fund Restoration Policy In General Equilibrium
Kastelein, Pim B.; Romp, Ward E. - 2018
When the financial positions of pension funds worsen, regulations prescribe that pension funds reduce the gap between their assets (invested contributions) and their liabilities (accumulated pension promises). This paper quantifies the business cycle effects and distributional implications of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932324
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Disinformation for Hire: Examining the Production of False COVID-19 Information
Cohn, Alain; Stoop, Jan; Rahman, Hatim A. - 2022
Misinformation is linked to increased social divisions and adverse health outcomes. While most research focuses on the spread of misinformation, we examine the production of misinformation intended to mislead (disinformation). Our field experiment (N=1,200) found, adjusting for circumstantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321761
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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
van Klaveren, Chris; van den Brink, Henriette Maassen; … - 2011
that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325892
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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy
Gunning, Jan Willem - 2008
Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326046
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The Stickiness of Aggregate Consumption Growth in OECD Countries: A Panel Data Analysis
Everaert, Gerdie; Pozzi, Lorenzo - 2010
This paper examines the sources of stickiness in aggregate consumption growth. We first derive a dynamic consumption equation which encompasses many recent developments in consumption theory: habit formation, intertemporal substitution effects, consumption based on current income, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325759
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Targeted Advertising and Social Status
Vikander, Nick E. - 2011
This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186696
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The Degree Measure as Utility Function over Positions in Networks
van den Brink, Rene - 2017
In this paper, we connect the social network theory on centrality measures to the economic theory of preferences and utility. Using the fact that networks form a special class of cooperative TU-games, we provide a foundation for the degree measure as a von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949568
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Habitual Communication
Ioannidis, Konstantinos - 2022
Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. If people primarily communicate in a common-interests environment, they may form habits of truth-telling and believing messages. If they primarily communicate in a conflicting-interests environment,...
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