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Women's Liberation : What's in it for Men?
Doepke, Matthias - 2010
took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital … bargaining power of husbands and wives. We show that men face a tradeoff between the rights they want for their own wives (namely …
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Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on Pac Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring
Conley, Dalton - 2010
Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a legislator's offspring sex mix as an exogenous variable, we employ a two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict...
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
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Voting for Democracy : Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation
Kaplan, Ethan; Saltiel, Fernando; Urzúa, Sergio - 2022
participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military … eligibles in other upstream elections. Since less educated voters tended to support Chile's governing left-wing coalition, we …
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2017
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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Measuring and Changing Control : Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Almås, Ingvild - 2015
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....
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The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Employment, Education, and Family
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary. Phase I occurred from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s; Phase II was from 1930 to 1950; Phase III extended from 1950 to the late 1970s; and Phase IV, the "quiet...
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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2011
We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error components model as well as simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the transitory variance started to increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129122
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Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates
Sanders, Nicholas J. - 2011
Fetal health is an important consideration in the formation of health-based policy. However, a complete census of true fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal health and apply it to examine the effects of air quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120284
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Obesity, Self-Esteem and Wages
Mocan, Naci H. - 2010
Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can...
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