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Men's premarital migration and marriage payments : evidence from Indonesia
Champeaux, Hugues; Gautrain, Elsa; Marazyan, Karine - 2024
resources at destination to meet the parents' bride price expectations and marry at home. We also highlight that these migration … as increasing premarital migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464638
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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507722
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805676
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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164530
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Health economics of genetic distance
Jelnov, Pavel - 2020
In this note, I address the trade-off between children's health and parental preference toward similarity with children. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children's health problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252376
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Widowhood and consumption of private assignable goods : the role of socio-economic status, rainfall shocks and historical institutions
Bandyopadhyay, Sutirtha; Maity, Bipasha - 2022
We study how weather shocks interact with cultural norms biased against women to affect female poverty within the household. Using expenditure on female assignable clothing per adult woman as a measure of women's intra-household access to consumption, we document that spending on female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798366
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Girls not brides : evolution of child marriage in Pakistan
Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2020
Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389440
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Bride kidnapping and informal governance institutions
Porreca, Zachar - 2024
revitalization of traditional values and culture. As part of this resurgence of Kyrgyz identity and culture, the central government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470133
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2022
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164507
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306222