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Diffusion of a social norm : tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812 - 1922
Poppel, Frans van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, Evelien - 2006
that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …
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Intra-household work time synchronization : togetherness or material benefits?
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte - 2005
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...
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On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks
Hoogeveen, Johannes; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, … - 2004
of a marriage of a daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the household from which she originates. We … support the hypothesis that the timing of marriage is affected by household characteristics; girls from households that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335199
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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386431
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A collective household model of time allocation : a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2006
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349201
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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2005
In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...
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Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble Y. - 2006
This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350383
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The role of domestic abuse in labor and marriage markets
Bowlus, Audra J.; Seitz, Shannon N. - 1998
current,but not the past, marriage. Second, domestic abuse is a dominant factor in thedivorce decision, which in turn is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299963
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Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408314
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Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? : targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage
Cassidy, Rachel; Dam, Anaya; Janssens, Wendy; Kiani, Umair - 2022
edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. Our treatment arms target men and … boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage …
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