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Arranged' marriage, co-residence and female schooling: a model with evidence from India
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Maitra, Pushkar; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2008
daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition … parents for educating daughters fail to raise female schooling levels. Policies (such as housing subsidies) that promote …
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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291387
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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative … parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291395
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On the origin of the family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
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Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Jirjahn, Uwe; Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020
Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide an economics-based approach to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and various dimensions of sexuality. From a theoretical viewpoint, personality influences sexual...
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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...
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Improving the modeling of couples' labour supply
Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong - 2005
We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...
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Is the quantity-quality trade-off a trade-off for all, none, or some?
Millimet, Daniel L.; Wang, Le - 2009
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire...
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Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: The Role of Institutions
Del Boca, Daniela - 2002
In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children. In this paper I will review a small body of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262819
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Sociability and the timing of first marriage
Heizler, Odelia; Yacouel, Nira; Kimhi, Ayal - 2012
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …
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