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women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …
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decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …
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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …
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This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
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Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts …
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We consider a general equilibrium model where groups operating in a competitive market environment can have several members and make efficient collective consumption decisions. Individuals have the option to leave the group and make it on their own or join another group. We study the effect of...
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We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...
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care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a “game” inspired by Becker … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the …
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Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data can be assumed to be sufficiently homogeneous with respect to the specific research...
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We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...
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