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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family?

Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

We analyze the relationship between the family and the Welfare State when intra-family transfers are governed by risk-sharing considerations (i.e. not by altruism). For the benchmarl case, the classic neutrality result is obtained: more generous unemployment benefits, provided by the State,...

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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Furtado, Delia; Marcen, Miriam - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining differences in divorce rates by … to a common set of American laws and institutions, we interpret cross-ancestry differences in divorce rates as evidence … divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males pointing to a potentially gendered …

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Testing Nash Bargaining Household Models With Time Series Data: Divorce Law Reform and Female Suicide in Canada.

Hoddinott, J.; Adam, C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

the household. In this paper, we exploit dramatic changes in divorce law legislation in Canada to test one variant of the …

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Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Women working full-time in the UK earn on average about 18% per hour less than men (EOC, 2005). Traditional labour economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and female human capital are recognized to derive from...

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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risk harzard model of fertility and cohabitation decisions. Our results show that individual earnings...

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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Dercon, Stefan; Caeyers, Bet - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

In many developing countries, the beneficiaries of transfer programmes are determined by community-based processes, based on some general targeting rules related to needs. This opens the door for local social and political processes to impact on who gets access. Despite increasingly large...

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Vulnerability, Shocks and Persistence of Poverty - Estimates for Semi-Arid Rural South India

Imai, Katsushi; Gaiha, Raghav - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs. Of particular concern is the possibilty of some sections experiencing long spells of poverty as a consequence of such shocks. The analysis is based on the ICRISAT panel survey of households in a...

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Kinship and Consumption: The Effect of Spouses' Outside Options on Household Productivity

Telalagic, Selma - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

to generate income, facing a threat of divorce in the next period. This threat of divorce encourages spouses to invest …

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Matching with Contracts: An Efficient Marriage Market?

Zeng, Chloe Qianzi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

This paper studies a marriage market with two-sided information asymmetry in whichthe gains from marriage are …

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The Time-crunch Paradox

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Previous research has shown little difference in the average leisure time of men and women. This finding is a challenge to the second shift argument, which suggests that increases in female labor market hours have not been compensated by equal decreases in household labor. This paper...

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