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of a marriage of a daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the household from which she originates. We … distinguish household specific wealth levels and two types of shocks: correlated (weather) shocks and idiosyncratic (wealth … support the hypothesis that the timing of marriage is affected by household characteristics; girls from households that …
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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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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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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...
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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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current,but not the past, marriage. Second, domestic abuse is a dominant factor in thedivorce decision, which in turn is a …
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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 …
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