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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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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …
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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...
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This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower …
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We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …
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While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage …. We conduct an experiment on an online marriage market platform that allows us to measure preferences of individuals in …
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crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first …
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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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