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two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …
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Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His … argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men … would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical …
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A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …
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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary … households are more likely to attend school one year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women's influence on …
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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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access to richer information than was previously possible. It shows that among women at least two thirds of the gap can be … education, worse health, and larger families (particularly for women) explain the lower labour market attachment of Indigenous …
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This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
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We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous households and show the importance of separately considering Indigenous disadvantage. We use these...
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Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered rollout. By changing parents' consumption patterns, the...
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