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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult
Switek, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...
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Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
Mu, Ren; Du, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a...
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Empowering Women through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program
Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational...
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The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind
Antman, Francisca M - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the effects of migration on the education and health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652104
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Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …
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Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh
Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to local health facilities (both traditional and modern)...
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Far Above Rubies: The Association Between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda
Bishai, David; Grossbard, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...
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