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This paper examines the provision of out-of school care in Bulgaria as an important topic within the debate on gender equality. The problem is recognized as a key issue of demographic development and reconciliation between work, private and family life in Bulgaria. The National Strategy for...
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This paper revisits the issue of the unilateral divorce law, taking into account that: 1/ the decisions to engage in marriage and then to divorce or to stay married are fundamentally sequential decisions; 2/ household consumption has a large joint component, generating economies of scale. The...
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and equal advancement of both the social segments. The numerical reality that women constitute about nearly half of the …, like other developing countries, women’s role in Sindh as an active worker-producer of goods and services has not been duly … recognized by this male dominated society. With the objective of ensuring increased participation of women, clear-cut guidelines …
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to emancipate. For women, the marginal e¤ect of having a partner is three times larger than that of working. Expectations …
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We study the problem of marriage formation and marital distribution in a two-period model of matching, extending the matching with bargaining framework of Crawford and Rochford (1986). We run simulations to find the effects of alimony rate, legal cost of divorce, initial endowments, couple and...
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Intra-household models have achieved significant theoretical development and received considerable empirical support within the past decade. This paper is a comprehensive and updated survey on three most influential categories of intra-household models: the Nash cooperative bargaining settings,...
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This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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normalizes the exercise behaviors of single women to those of their married counterparts. Our main results suggest that when … potential mate quality in a marriage market decreases, single black women invest less in healthy body weight. For example, we … in vigorous exercise taken by single black females. No significant response is found for single white women. These …
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Am 28. Oktober 2011 wurde in Berlin der 8. Familienbericht an die Bundesministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend übergeben. Er beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema »Zeit für Familie« und mit den Notwendigkeiten und Möglichkeiten einer Familienzeitpolitik. Für die Erstellung des...
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Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
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