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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 …

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Tourism Boom, Housing Doom: Excessive Tourism And International Emigration

Mikulić, Josip; Vitezić, Vanja; Srhoj, Stjepan; … - 2024

first establish a positive association between rising housing prices and emigration across both regions. More critically, we …), while it is negatively associated with emigration in regions with lower tourism levels (early TALC stage). Our findings shed …

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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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Inequality in the Economics Profession

Singhal, Karan; Sierminska, Eva - 2024

, publication processes, employment opportunities, and promotion and tenure considerations, as well as recent developments related …

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A Simple Solution to the Problem of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in Choo and Siow Marriage Market Model

Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019

This paper proposes a simple solution to the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) problem in Choo and Siow (2006) model, overcoming what is probably the main limitation of this approach. The solution consists of assuming match-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The...

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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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