Using empirical methods, this paper examines household schooling and child labor decisions in rural Bangladesh. The results suggest the following: poverty and low parental education are associated with lower schooling and greater child labor; asset-owning households are more likely to have children combine child labor with schooling; households choose the same activity for all children within t...

Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the parent may influence that of their offspring and vice ...

We show that there are exactly, up to isomorphisms, seven rational extremal log Enriques surfaces Z and construct all of them; among them types D19 and A19 have been shown of certain uniqueness by M. Reid. We also prove that the (degree 3 or 2) canonical covering of each of these seven Z has either X3 or X4 as its minimal resolution. Here X3 (resp. X4) is the unique K3 surface with Picard numbe...

Do rural households in developing countries make market participation and volume decisions simultaneously or sequentially? This article develops a two-stage econometric model that allows testing between these two competing hypotheses regarding household-level market behavior. The first stage models the household’s choice of whether to be a net buyer, autarkic, or a net seller in the market. The...

This study examines how the level of financial development in a community affects households’ decisions over how remittance income is spent. My findings suggest that in communities without banks remittances are more likely to be used for productive investments or to purchase assets. Increasing the size of the financial sector in communities with banks present increases the likelihood that remit...

The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Hou...

This paper analyzes the impact of (quasi-) hyperbolic discounting on timing and numbers of births. Using a simple three period model it shows that without the ability to save and borrow hyperbolic discounters postpone births and give birth to less children than previously intended. In the presence of a (perfect) capital market additional qualifications are required to obtain similar results. In...

Motoneuron responses to the inhibitory amino acids glycine and GABA, and the contribution of inhibitory synapses to developing sensorimotor synapses were studied in rat spinal cords during the last week in utero. In differentiating motoneurons, glycine and GABA induced Cl(-)-dependent membrane depolarizations and large decreases in membrane resistance. These responses gradually decreased during...

The study aimed to compare the welfare and performance of sows piglets in three different farrowing systems (farrowing crate (FC) pen with temporary crating (TC): SWAP JLF15). One batch crossbred Duroc was followed every season. There were 18 (183 piglets) FC, 23 (243 SWAP, (237 JLF15. Farrowing day Day (D) 0 weaning occurred on D24. Crating period from entry 1-day pre-expected D3 TC. Social in...