This paper compares the saving behavior of formal and informal workers and additionally provides a socioeconomic and financial characterization of informal workers in Chile. The paper uses the Financial Household Survey ...

This paper examines the effects of birth order on intra-household allocations as evidenced by the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Previous studies have found that earlier born children ...

The Argentinean real wage has suffered a profound deterioration since the mid-1970s. Simultaneously, there was a structural increase in women’s labor market participation. Consequently, looking at individual wages as ...

Using longitudinal data for Argentina, this paper measures the labor supply reaction of different household members to a breadwinner’s job loss. Firm events and local unemployment shocks are exploited as exogenous sources ...

This thesis explores different dimensions of family labor supply in Brazil, with a specific focus on the observed changes in family arrangements. The fundamental hypothesis to be tested is whether the changes in family ...

It is indeed a pleasure to write the preface to a book celebrating 20 years of the “Swiss Household Panel (SHP).” For about 20 years, I was responsible for one of SHP’s twins: the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), ...

We construct a frictionless matching model of the marriage market where women have bidimensional attributes, one continuous (income) and the other dichotomous (home ability). Equilibrium in the marriage market determines ...