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The Effect of Education on Efficiency in Consumption
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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1972-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 92 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Consumption (economics).read more
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The Human Capital Model
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health which was originally developed in 1972 is discussed, and theoretical extensions of the model are reviewed, as well as empirical research that tests the predictions and studies causality between years of formal schooling completed and good health is surveyed.
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Poverty and the Distribution of Material Hardship
TL;DR: The authors found that a family's official income-to-needs ratio explained 24 percent of the variance in the amount of material hardship it reported, while adjustment for family size, age, health, noncash benefits, home ownership, and access to credit explained another 15 percent.
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Can Family Socioeconomic Resources Account for Racial and Ethnic Test Score Gaps
TL;DR: Boosting the family incomes of preschool children may be a promising intervention to reduce racial and ethnic school readiness gaps, and the authors suggest giving only a modest role to programs that address parents' socioeconomic resources.
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On the new theory of consumer behavior
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TL;DR: The authors advocates a reformulation of the theory of consumer behavior, based on the household production function approach suggested in Becker's "A Theory of the Allocation of Time" [1].
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Household Consumption of Food-Away-From-Home: Total Expenditure and by Type of Food Facility
TL;DR: In this paper, household income, time value, size and composition, and the environment in which production and consumption occurred were all important determinants of total household expenditures on food-away-from-home.