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Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey
Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to …
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Did Covid-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy
Boca, Daniela Del; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families' lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women, particularly in countries with a traditionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088222
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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies …, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and … a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103496
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Interethnic Marriages and Their Economic Effects
Furtado, Delia - 2012
surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109422
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Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act
Isaac, Elliott; Jiang, Haibin - 2022
Surveys and leverage variation in the marriage subsidy created by the ACA s premium tax credit, individual mandate, and … Medicaid expansion. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate a significant though small positive marriage response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030708
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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K. - 2021
Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315019
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The impact of student debt on education, career, and marriage choices of female lawyers
Sieg, Holger; Wang, Yu - In: European economic review : EER 109 (2018), pp. 124-147
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044717
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
Habyarimana, James P.; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, … - 2021
A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...
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