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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
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the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …
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Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …
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We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and...
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This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary e.ects of...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...
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We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …
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fecundity and an equilibrium marriage market form the basis of my explanation. The model also accounts for gender …I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage …-specific relationships between age at marriage and income, as well as the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income …
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of her husband holding some academic qualification and being economically active. -- education ; marriage ; assortative …
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