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-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …
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married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …
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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: long-distance migration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a bird's eye view of worker reallocation in the economy as long-distance migrants often change jobs or employment status, altering...
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We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide causal effects of education on migration by reason for...
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If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...
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as well as access to native spouses' networks and contacts. However, marriage choice is endogenous, unobserved factors … estimate marriage premiums taking into account individual heterogeneity. This is done for three types of marriages …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed …
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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