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Political Economy of Redistribution between Traditional and Modern Families

Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew - 2019

We analyse a model in which families may either be 'traditional' single-earner with caring for the child at home or 'modern' double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are...

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What is the Value Added by using Causal Machine Learning Methods in a Welfare Experiment Evaluation?

Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019

I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...

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Labor Market Responses to Partners' Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment

Keldenich, Carina; Knabe, Andreas - 2018

This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their...

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Violations of scale compatibility: results from pricing tasks and choice tasks in choice experiments

Merk, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin; Schmidt, Ulrich; … - 2015

According to rational choice theory, preference orderings should be invariant with respect to the elicitation procedure. The contingent trade-off model (Tversky et al., 1988), however, argues that if an attribute of decision alterna-tives is also used as response mode (scale compatibility), then...

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Financial Advice: An Improvement for Worse?

Karabulut, Yigitcan - 2010

Using a unique administrative data set from a large German commercial bank, this paper aims to ascertain the role of financial advisors in individual portfolios. Following on the heels of the ongoing regulatory and political debate as to the merits of financial advice, we focus in this paper on...

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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries - Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?

Schäfer, Dorothea; Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya - 2010

This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment decisions. The analysis is based on micro-level data from large-scale surveys of private households in five European countries. In our analysis of investment decisions, we directly...

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Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we...

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Earnings returns to education, experience and health: Evidence from EU-SILC

Pena-Boquete, Yolanda; Flores, Manuel - 2013

Using individual-level panel data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007-2010) we explore to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience and health. The human capital literature suggests an...

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A importância de festivais de gastronomia como estratégia de desenvolvimento em pequenas comunidades rurais

Gomes, Ana Paula; Duarte, Edivânia; Dias, Elisson; … - 2015

Uma estratégia que alguns municípios de Minas Gerais têm adotado para promover o desenvolvimento em comunidades rurais mediante incentivo ao turismo é o festival de gastronomia. Especificamente no município de Muriaé, um grande fomentador do turismo local tem sido o evento ?Gastronomia na...

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Saving and Consumption When Children Move Out

Klos, Alexander; Rottke, Simon - 2013

Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops and saving rises … significantly within four years after a child moves out of a household. Per capita consumption of parents is approximately leveled … calibrated life-cycle models assuming a smoothing of per capita consumption for parents with children in the household …

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