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Male education and domestic violence in Turkey : evidence from a natural experiment

Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2017

We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour against women. We find that husband's education lowers...

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective

Carson, Scott Alan - 2013

This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...

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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007

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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...

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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of … 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …

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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women

Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...

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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA

Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...

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Male investment in schooling with frictional labour and marriage markets

Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis - 2019

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained sequential job search, and can choose to improve their...

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An investment-and-marriage model with differential fecundity

Zhang, Hanzhe - 2019

I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage for Americans born in the twentieth century that had not been explained in a unified way. The most novel finding is a theoretical explanation for why women attend college at a...

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