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An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick,...
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Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
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Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans … report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time …. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates (price of time) will lead to substitution of grazing for primary eating …
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that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including … welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The effects of time limits depend on the stock of remaining months of … eligibility, which in turn depends on the state time limit and on family's welfare use since the policy was implemented. Since the …
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An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...
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Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
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cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is therefore the next stage in the research program. At the same time, we … know from other fields that there are dangers in simply pooling all available time series, without regard to the specific … part of the paper tackles the challenge of comparability of income-tax based estimates across countries and across time …
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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...
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