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There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...
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The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems isn't just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...
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recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …’ and spouse's education are considerably higher than the OLS estimates for returns to schooling, while the estimates which …
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education and spousal education combine to influence self-rated health within marriage. The results highlight the importance of …Education’s benefits for individuals’ health are well documented, but it is unclear whether health benefits also accrue … from the education of others in important social relationships. We assess the extent to which individuals’ own education …
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Previous research has suggested that a new marriage gradient has emerged in the United States, with marriage becoming … in the marriage gradient among 25 European countries, using multilevel models. The focus is on the chances of living in a … married. For men, the educational effect on marriage is absent in traditional countries but becomes positive as gender roles …
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In the past, students in England and Wales born within the first 5 months of the academic year could leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, those who were required to stay on an extra term more frequently hold some academic qualification. Using having...
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United States. Both a general and an education-based metric have strong effects. The novel statistical power arises from …
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her with respect to medical treatment, including the Pill. By the mid-1970s, the minimum marriage age had been lowered to … made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women’s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined … with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …
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Evidence from many countries shows that as societies modernise and women’s status rises, son preference declines. Yet in China the sex ratio at birth has been the highest in the world for over two decades despite rapid modernisation, urbanisation and huge improvements in women’s...
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We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural … empirical model that allows for the endogenous selection of education and sector of employment, we estimate the relationship … worker from 1978 to 2004 is accounted for by increased education, with 9% coming through the labor-reallocation channel and 2 …
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