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Pareto Efficiency is a core assumption of most models of household decision-making. We test this assumption using a new dataset covering the retirement saving contributions of over a million U.S. individuals. While a vast literature has failed to reject household efficiency in developed...
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, we distinguish between four types of women's rights--economic, political, labor, and body--and document their evolution …
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In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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between trading firms, the presence of positive assortative matching among firms, and their evolution during the business …
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among partners' skills in match output? We develop a matching model in which risk-averse agents, who differ in skills, match …. We then highlight a new implication of positive sorting on exogenous skills for matching patterns on endogenous …
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We propose a new sorting framework: composite sorting. Composite sorting comprises of (1) distinct worker types assigned to the same occupation, and (2) a given worker type simultaneously being part of both positive and negative sorting. Composite sorting arises when fixed investments mitigate...
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Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male … children, marriage patterns are far from being random, instead, there is positive assortative matching. This is present for the … entire income distribution, though at the highest levels matching on income is thirty times of what it is at low income …
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We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
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