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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 … also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …
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. -- savings behavior ; marriage ; divorce ; economics of marriage ; gender roles …This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …
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sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD …
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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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IPV is highest when men and women are jointly targeted. Due to systematic gender differences in preferences, our …
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This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to … independence, others their prevailing domesticity. The distinctive frontier gender roles, in turn, shaped norms over the long run …
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This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
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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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We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997) are matched with newly digitized information on war...
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fecundity and an equilibrium marriage market form the basis of my explanation. The model also accounts for gender …
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