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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on US Census data, the Current Population Survey, the...
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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. Victims also experience more doctor visits, lower employment, reduced earnings and a higher use of disability insurance while …
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …
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(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …
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In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean … natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration policy and the pre …-existing networks of immigrants to construct an instrument for immigration across Korean municipalities, we find that locations …
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