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What remains after the oil boom is over?

Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a positive shock on some males. The analyzed outcome is...

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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era

Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

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Immigrants and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014

Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...

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Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents

Pezzin, Liliana E. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital status, parental marital history, whether the index...

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A new framework for the analysis of inequality

Cunha, Flávio (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2007

"This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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Power of the pill or power of abortion? : re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control

Myers, Caitlin K. - 2012

Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and 1970s has not adequately accounted for the largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion....

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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...

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What happened to God's time? : the evolution of secularism and hours of work in America, evidence from religious holidays

Lozano, Fernando - 2012

Are American workers less likely to observe a religious holiday now than they were 30 years ago? In this paper I use evidence from religious holidays to explore the evolution of market hours' flexibility and religious observance during the last thirty years. To do so, I take advantage of three...

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Tyler, John H. (contributor) - 2007

which affected GED test takers in Texas. We utilize unique data from the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP) which contain … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment … Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the …

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