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frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …
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This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
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-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …
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particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …
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We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
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within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat. …
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Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...
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Despite the presence of Medicare, out-of-pocket medical spending is a large expenditure risk facing the elderly. While women live longer than men, elderly women incur higher out-of-pocket medical spending than men at each age. In this paper, we examine whether differences in marital status and...
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Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
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women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
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