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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources: a Model
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014
In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
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Women and happiness
Matteucci, Nicola; Vieira Lima, Sabrina - 2014
We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic … gender gap. Finally, different disciplines uncovered the common stylized fact that women are increasingly worse off during …
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Age of Majority and Women’s Early Human Capital Accumulation in Australia
Cragun, Randy; Chatterjee, Ishita - 2020
Past research has suggested that Common Law restrictions may have prevented minors from obtaining oral contraceptives (the pill) without parental consent and that, thus, reductions in the age at which a woman became a legal adult could work through access to the pill to increase incomes,...
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Intergenerational transmission of fertility decisions in Spain
Morales, Marina - 2020
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether parents' fertility decisions may be an important determinant of the future fertility decisions of their children in Spain. To address this issue, we use data from the Survey of Living Conditions (2011). Our results confirm the intergenerational...
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Agricultural Dualism, Incidence of Child Labour and Subsidy Policies
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2009
This paper purports to examine the validity of the common belief that in a developing economy the backward agricultural sector should be subsidized as poorer group of the working population are employed in this sector that send their children out to work out of sheer poverty. A three-sector...
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Child labour in the presence of agricultural dualism: possible cures
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2010
The paper using a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and child labour shows that any fiscal measures designed to benefit backward agriculture cannot cure the problem of child labour in a developing economy although they raise the non-child labour income of the poor...
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The quantitative role of child care for female labor force participation and fertility
Bick, Alexander - 2010
Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to...
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A re-appraisal of the fertility response to the Australian baby bonus
Sinclair, Sarah; Boymal, Jonathan; de Silva, Ashton - 2010
The Australian baby bonus offering parents $3,000 on the birth of a new child was announced on May 11 2004. The availability of five years of birth data following the introduction of the baby bonus allows for a more comprehensive analysis of the policy implications than is current in the...
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The quantitative role of child care for female labor force participation and fertility
Bick, Alexander - 2011
Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227456
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Fertility and consumption when having a child is a risky investment
Gete, Pedro; Porchia, Paolo - 2010
This paper studies children as a risky asset associated to an investment option. Children provide utility but have a stochastic maintenance cost. We obtain several new results relative to models where children are deterministic goods, among which: i) Higher child risks diminish fertility and...
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