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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
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Gender Identity and Relative Income Within Households
Bertrand, Marianne; Kamenica, Emir; Pan, Jessica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
earns more than her husband. We present evidence that this aversion also impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … production. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman becomes more likely to earn more than a randomly chosen man …
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On the Origin of the Family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …
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Your place or mine? On the residence choice of young couples in Norway
Løken, Katrine; Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Lundberg, Shelly - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Norwegian registry data is used to investigate the location decisions of a full population cohort of young adults as they complete their education, establish separate households and form their own families. We find that the labor market opportunities and family ties of both partners affect these...
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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very dierently. The education gender gap was eliminated and married...
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The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: the case of a pension reform in Argentina
Berniell, Inés; de la Mata, Dolores; Machado, Matilde Pinto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Transfers to women may affect their bargaining power within the household and consequently their well-being. We analyze the effects of a pension reform in Argentina that resulted in an unexpected and substantial increase in permanent income for around 1.8 million senior women (women 60 years and...
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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …
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Transmission of preferences and beliefs about female labor market participation: direct evidence on the role of mothers
Carro, Jesus; Machado, Matilde Pinto; Mora, Ricardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Recently, economists have established that culture defined as a common set of preferences and beliefs—affects economic outcomes, including the levels of female labor force participation. Although this literature has argued that culture is transmitted from parents to children, it has also...
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