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The Competitive Saving Motive : Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2009
manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other …
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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility
Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013
estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459167
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the … population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical propositions …
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Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration
Finlay, Keith - 2008
Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market should affect marriage decisions, we use … and child outcomes for blacks and Hispanics, at least for the children of women whose marriage decisions are most affected … may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child …
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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian - 2005
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
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Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2008
This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of...
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Partnership Status and the Human Sex Ratio at Birth
Norberg, Karen - 2004
If two-parent care has different consequences for the reproductive success of sons and daughters, then natural selection may favor adjustment of the sex ratio at birth according to circumstances that forecast later family structure. In humans, this partnership status hypothesis predicts fewer...
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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …
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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
Antman, Francisca M. - 2020
The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
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