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Human capital effects of marriage payments : investing in femal human capital can reduce brideprice and dowry practices and increase welfare
Anderson, Siwan - 2014
Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …
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Financial implications of relationship breakdown : does marriage matter?
Fisher, Hayley; Low, Hamish - 2012
marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627598
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Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China
Shiue, Carol H.; Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …
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Love and Taxes - and Matching Institutions
Konrad, Kai A.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791664
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An Investigation into the Positive Effect of an Educated Wife on Her Husband’s Earnings: The Case of Japan in the Period between 2000 and 2003
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - In: International Advances in Economic Research 18 (2012) 4, pp. 409-416
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and have sufficient time to support their …
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Assortative mating and earnings inequality in South Korea
Frémeaux, Nicolas; Jung, Seeun; Lefranc, Arnaud - In: Journal of economic inequality 22 (2024) 1, pp. 211-236
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Does the stork deliver happiness? : parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
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LGBTI in OECD countries : a review
Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2017
This paper presents an overview of the socio-economic situation of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), primarily in OECD countries. After investigating the size of this population, the paper zooms in on attitudes toward LGBTI, LGBTI rights and perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695099
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Equivalence scales and the cost of children: The case of household splits in Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Schmaus, Gunther; Bould, Sally - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 131 (2011) 2, pp. 369-380
Couples households may separate over time. The OECD equivalence scale is used to compare the income situation of post separation households with the pre-separation households. This scale makes assumptions about the needs of adults and children as well as economies of scale. The impact of these...
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New facts on infidelity
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 3, pp. 458-462
We establish new empirical facts, in line with the recent theoretical literature on infidelity. Infidelity displays seasonality and state dependence. In the US socioeconomic status is not a driver of infidelity and females and males are equally likely to be unfaithful.
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