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Marry Your Like : Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2014
inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060137
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Marriage and Marriage Markets
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2016
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980278
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071080
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska‐Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023
observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351482
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Beyond Inequality Accounting : Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …
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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945228
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Field of Study and Family Outcomes
Artmann, Elisabeth - 2018
This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of study for a range of family outcomes. To get to causal effects, we use admission lotteries that...
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Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures
Almar, Frederik; Schulz, Bastian - 2023
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349253
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The Wife's Protector : A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2019
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. This led to a sexual revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, and a decline in marriage. The impact of contraception on married and single life is analyzed...
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