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Risk and Development: Households and Firms (RDHF)
Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Mar 16, 2019,
Poor households in developing countries face low and volatile incomes, with little access to forma credit and insurance. Households often resort to informal institutions in order to smooth consumption and foster investment. The extended family could be such an institution. We test for the relevance of the extended family as a provider of resources able to smooth consumption fluctuations and promot ...
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Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn (APMPAL)
Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,
"A conventional assumption in dynamic models is that agents form their expectations in a very sophisticated manner. In particular, that they have Rational Expectations (RE). We develop some tools to relax this assumption while retaining fully optimal behaviour by agents. We study implications for asset pricing and macro policy.We assume that agents have a consistent set of beliefs that is close, b ...
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Peer effects and endogenous network formation (PEERS)
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,
The aim of this project is to develop a theoretical and empirical framework to simultaneously study network formation and peer effects in education. The problem is important from a methodological perspective, as there do not exist general purpose estimatable models of social dynamics in Economics which treat the network formation process as endogenous and simultaneously contemplate network effects ...
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Changing Families: Causes, Consequences and Challenges for Public Policy (CHANGING FAMILIES)
Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,
The household and family structure in every major industrialized country changed in a fundamental way during the last couple of decades. First, marriage is less important today, as divorce, cohabitation, and single-motherhood are much more common. Second, female labor force participation has increased dramatically. As a result of these changes, today s households are very far from traditional brea ...
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