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We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …
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decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility …
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in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …
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rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …
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the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …
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This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation …, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as a cut-off point, the one-child policy has … marriage age is positive and significant, no matter for urban, rural residents, or migrants, but the effect is smaller in the …
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during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation …
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The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....
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In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
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We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, creating the opportunity for prospective parents to (re-)schedule conceptions accordingly. We find...
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