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Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018
There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...
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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585219
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Parental Migration, Investment in Children, and Children's Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from Rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...
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Social Barriers to Female Migration: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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Elite School Designation and House Prices - Quasi-experimental Evidence from Beijing, China
Huang, Bin; He, Xiaoyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2018
We explore three recent comprehensive reforms which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the causal effect of access to quality education on house prices. Using property transaction records from Beijing in 2013 and 2016, we construct a balanced panel of...
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Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity
Gagliardi, Nicola; Grinza, Elena; Rycx, François - 2021
In this paper, we explore the impact of workers’ tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer …-employee data on private Belgian firms. We estimate a production function augmented with a firm-level measure of tenure. We deal … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The …
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Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women’s Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017
Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit regression results show that even after accounting for...
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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China, we explicitly address the endogeneity of pension status and pension income...
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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng; McKinnish, Terra - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more satisfied with younger wives and less satisfied with older wives. Interestingly, women likewise tend to...
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