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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income

Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with … endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development …

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Gender, Poverty and the Intra-household Distribution of Resources

Findlay, Ronald; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

relationship between gender and poverty. These countries were chosen as they have, under the equal-sharing assumption, very … different gender distributions of poverty. …

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men. …

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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance

Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total...

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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation

Blundell, Richard William; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and non-participation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied...

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Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions where commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure through both formal contracts and informal agreements,...

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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer

Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent hobbies and to acquire hobby skills, and its implications...

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Mortality Risks, Education and Child Labour

Baland, Jean-Marie; Estevan, Fernanda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the role of young adult mortality on child labour and educational decisions. We argue that mortality risks are a major source of risks in returns to education in developing countries. We show that, in the absence of appropriate insurance mechanisms, the level of...

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