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Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China
Shiue, Carol H.; Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male … young males. Lower marriage matching in the 18th and 19th centuries is accompanied by lower inequality across households …, yielding a positive time series correlation between sorting and inequality. There are also intergenerational matching returns …
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...
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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Families with Health Shocks
Coile, Courtney; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Su, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the 1996-2019 restricted-use version of the Medical...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …
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Drivers of Change : How Intra-household Preferences Shape Employment Responses to Gender Reform
Abou Daher, Chaza; Field, Erica Marie; Swanson, Kendal M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Billions of women still face legal barriers to economic inclusion, yet it is unclear whether lifting these barriers is sufficient to enhance their economic participation. We conduct a field experiment to quantify the impact of a major legal reform - the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban -...
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Intrahousehold Welfare : Theory and Application to Japanese Data
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, Costas; Okuyama, Yoko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
allocation of time. We then use our conceptual framework to analyse intrahousehold inequality in Japan, allowing for the presence …
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Days of Work Over a Half Century : The Rise of the Four-day Week
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine patterns of work in the U.S. from 1973-2018 with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work tripled during this period, with over 8 million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The...
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College as a Marriage Market
Kirkeboen, Lars; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the question of why college graduates are so likely to marry someone within their...
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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure
Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
contributed to the widening college gap in household income, accentuating widening earnings inequality. These trends have the …
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Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in the U.S
Chen, Yutong; Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This chapter examines the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence (DV) in the United States. Despite widespread concerns that pandemic shutdowns could increase DV, initial studies found mixed evidence that varied across data sources and locations. We review the evolving literature on...
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