Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 225
Cover Image
Inter- and intra-marriage premiums revisited : it's probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - 2010
intermarriage premiums are largely due to selection. -- intermarriage ; intra-marriage ; income ; immigration ; assimilation …For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302215
Cover Image
The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521153
Cover Image
Why wait? : A century of education, marriage timing and gender roles
Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2016
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose a multi-period frictionless matching model where educational and marriage decisions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450348
Cover Image
China's sex ratio and crime : behavioral change or financial necessity?
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
This paper uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other species, we find that China's high sex-ratios are associated with greater risk-taking and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452667
Cover Image
The economics of hypergamy
Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen R.; … - 2019
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985999
Cover Image
Economic opportunities and gender equity : the migration and education decisions of young women from rural China
Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan - 2019
We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young women has recently disappeared. We propose that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003780
Cover Image
Locus of control and marital satisfaction : couple perspectives using Australian data
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra G. - 2019
We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates whether one believes that one's outcomes are more under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109472
Cover Image
Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden
Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Stenberg, Anders - 2015
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue that this drop is consistent with a social norm prescribing that a man should earn more than his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388333
Cover Image
Body-weight and women's hours of work : more evidence that marriage markets matter
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664273
Cover Image
What will you do if i say "i do"? : the effect of the sex ratio on time use within Taiwanese married couples
Chang, Simon; Connelly, Rachel; Ma, Ping - 2015
in leisure and higher (lower) share of the couple's total work time (employment, commuting and housework). A large sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308983