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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth

Rosenzweig, Mark; Munshi, Kaivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

insurance to their members. Unique panel data providing information on income, assets, gifts, loans, consumption, marriage, and … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with a more than...

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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures of empowerment. We apply an instrumental variables...

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How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness

Helliwell, John F.; Grover, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued … that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are …

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Effects of Mental Health on Couple Relationship Status

Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We exploit the occurrence of postpartum depression (PPD), which has a random component according to the medical community, to estimate causal effects of a salient form of mental illness on couples' relationship status. We estimate single-equation models as well as bivariate probit models that...

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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In...

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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects. …-age. To control for selective migration, we instrument the migration decision using inflows of immigrants to the US during …

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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Tertilt, Michele; Kircher, Philipp; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games

Fox, Jeremy; Yang, Chenyu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Agents in two-sided matching games vary in characteristics that are unobservable in typical data on matching markets. We investigate the identification of the distribution of these unobserved characteristics using data on who matches with whom. The distribution of match-specific unobservables...

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Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter-generational Support in Urban China

Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We use unique data characterizing individual savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings rates of the young are elevated relative to the middle-aged, despite rising individual life-cycle incomes. We show that inter-generational co-residence masks the true life-cycle...

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