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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

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The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...

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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …

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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Pill Power: The Prequel

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is...

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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education … – both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …

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