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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546250
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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802026
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034138
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Sanitation and marriage markets in India : evidence from the total sanitation campaign
Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2021
We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage market outcomes for both men and women. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799787
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585848
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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Schooling, marriage, and childbearing in Madagascar
Glick, Peter J.; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313105
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385407
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A spouse and a house are all we need? : housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle
Rock, Bram de; Kovaleva, Mariia; Potoms, Tom - 2023
framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the … lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using exogenous variation in female labor supply and divorce rates due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419233
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Education in a marriage market model without commitment
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and subsequent remarriage. Through this channel, the marriage market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310256