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What's the use of marriage?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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Egalitarian religion and economics
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758
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In search of gender bias in household resource allocation in rural China
Song, Lina - 2008
to young girls; and high male sex ratios. No evidence is found to support the third hypothesis. …
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Mommies' girls get dresses, daddies' boys get toys: Gender preferences in Poland and their implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2011
Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … of gender roles - mommies' girls get dresses and daddies' boys get toys. …We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish …
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The effect of job displacement on couples' fertility decisions
Huttunen, Kristiina; Kellokumpu, Jenni - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The … results show that woman's own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287688
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … infancy and childhood. On the contrary, high-status women are less likely to give birth to girls and their daughters have … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys … gaps in breastfeeding and immunization, and complete convergence in the post-neonatal mortality rates of boys and girls …
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Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?
Farré, Lídia; Gonzalez, Libertad - 2018
fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just … subsequent fertility. First, fathers' increasing involvement in childcare led to higher labor force attachment among mothers …. This may have raised the opportunity cost of an additional child. We also find that men reported lower desired fertility …
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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008
fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …
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