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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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Bargaining power and equilibrium consumption

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2005

We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...

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Household expenditures, wages, rents

Davis, Morris A.; Ortalo-Magné, François - 2007

We provide new evidence from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Decennial Census of Housing that the expenditure share on housing is constant over time and across U.S. metropolitan areas (MSA). Consistent with this observation, we consider a basic model in which identical households with Cobb-Douglas...

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Household models: an historical perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...

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On the causes and consequences of divorce

Balestrino, Alessandro; Ciardi, Cinzia; Mammini, Claudio - 2008

In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of the informal safety net in a period when social...

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Scarring or scaring?: the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008

We reassess the scarring" hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Nineteenth century stature and family size: Binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...

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Residential mobility of the European elderly

Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010

With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...

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International income inequality: Measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food

Almås, Ingvild - 2010

Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its...

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A Post Bellum Paradox: Net Nutrition Variation by Socioeconomic Status, Gender and Race in the Late 19th Century

Carson, Scott Alan - 2024

When traditional measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, body mass, height, and weight are complements to standard income and wealth measures. A persistent question in welfare studies is the 19th century's 2nd and 3rd quarter's stature diminution, a pattern known as the...

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