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Divorce and Gold Coins: A Case Study of Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2018

The increasing divorce rate has become a major social concern for policy makers in the Islamic government of Iran. The … in Iran. Dowries (Mehrieh) are usually in the form of gold coin and a wife has a legal right to them upon both parties … and divorce rate for the case of Iran over the period 1980-2014. Controlling for other factors, our regression results …

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The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment

Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...

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Long-Term Economic Implications of Demeny Voting: A Theoretical Analysis

Bonatti, Luigi; Lorenzetti, Lorenza Alexandra - 2022

This paper places itself at the intersection between the literature on "Demeny voting" (the proposal of letting custodial parents exercise their children's voting rights until they come of age) and the vast literature on formal models with endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal...

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Time Savings when Working from Home

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy M. - 2023

Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics" spread over the entire U.S. Combining newly digitized data on the roll-out of these clinics, full-count Census data, and administrative vital statistics, we find that birth...

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Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures

Almar, Frederik; Schulz, Bastian - 2023

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...

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Parenting with Patience: Parental Incentives and Child Development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2023

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to increase the child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills within a Markov Perfect Equilibrium framework. In addition to time and money investments in their child, parents also...

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Late 19th and Early 20th Century Urban Net Nutrition by Gender and Race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2023

Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and weight are welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Nineteenth and early...

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Competitive Markets, Collective Decisions and Group Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2003

We consider a general equilibrium model where groups operating in a competitive market environment can have several members and make efficient collective consumption decisions. Individuals have the option to leave the group and make it on their own or join another group. We study the effect of...

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What's in a Name?

Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004

Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Centers (NORC's) General Social Survey, including access to respondents first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we extract...

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