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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
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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Will women save more than men? : a theoretical model of savings and marriage
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Pereira, Alfredo M. - 2010
. -- 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997600
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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
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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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence : evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia
Kotsadam, Andreas; Villanger, Espen - 2020
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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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics : evidence from the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010
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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International migration of couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
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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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?
González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021
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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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
instrumental variable strategies, for instance based on the gender disparity in industries and occupations. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499522
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An investment-and-marriage model with differential fecundity
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2019
fecundity and an equilibrium marriage market form the basis of my explanation. The model also accounts for gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110230
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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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