Dissertation
ESSAYS ON INTERNAL HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS IN SOCIAL SPACE
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2019
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111167
Abstract
My dissertation lies at the intersection of Labor, Development, and Behavioral Economics. In the first chapter I study how identity assimilation efforts affect the intra-household decision process. Using a spatial dynamic panel model I find that a social distance based on gender-role identity weakens the impacts of members' preference or the presence of children on labor supply. However, the labor supply decision can be affected by factors beyond a household. The second chapter deals with peer effects that affect females' post-schooling investment in the Netherlands. By using spatial interaction with origin-destination flows models I provide the strong evidence that more population of career-oriented females can lead to higher wage growth among females. The paper also shows that the intra-household interaction with a partner can lead to low post-schooling investments among females. In the third paper, I examine the impact of crop diversification and crop choice on the post-crisis resilience for subsistence farmers. Applying a Heckman selection model to survey data conducted in Ethiopia, I show that household head's impulsivity rather than crop diversification plays a critical role as a limiting constraint, which interplays with their crop choice and affects the household's resilience.
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Details
- Title
- ESSAYS ON INTERNAL HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS IN SOCIAL SPACE
- Creators
- HYUNJYUNG OH
- Contributors
- Robert Rosenman (Advisor)Jonathan Yoder (Committee Member)Jinhui Bai (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Economic Sciences, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 98
- Identifiers
- 99900581706201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation