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The Economic Value of Virtue
Mariani, Fabio - 2010
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and...
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The Economics of Hypergamy
Almås, Ingvild - 2019
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband's earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and Ses at Older Ages : Evidence from China
Huang, Wei - 2012
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may...
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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status Among the Elderly in China : Evidence from the Charls Pilot
Strauss, John - 2010
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
Liu, Gordon Guoen - 2014
China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …
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Hukou Status, Housing Tenure Choice and Wealth Accumulation in Urban China
Liao, Yu; Zhang, Junfu - 2021
In Chinese cities, migrants with rural hukou, compared to residents with local urban hukou, face more uncertainty, have limited access to mortgage finance, and are less eligible for low-cost housing. A simple model demonstrates that for these reasons, rural- to-urban migrants are less likely to...
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Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Akay, Alpaslan - 2015
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously explore the …
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P. - 2010
China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement …
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Origins of Gender Norms : Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner
Brenøe, Anne - 2018
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...
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Female Migration and Native Marital Stability : Insights from Italy
Vignoli, Daniele - 2015
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally –...
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