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Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052154
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An Intergenerational Model of Wages, Hours and Earnings
Altonji, Joseph G.; Dunn, Thomas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
In this paper we develop and estimate a factor model of the earnings, labor supply, and wages of young men and young women, their parents and their siblings. We estimate the model using data on matched sibling and parent-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market...
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How Family Status and Social Security Claiming Options Shape Optimal Life Cycle Portfolios
Mitchell, Olivia; Hubener, Andreas; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
shocks such as marriage, divorce, and children. Our model generates a wealth profile and a low and stable equity fraction …
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252666
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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325524
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401245
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Routine
Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Routine - maintaining the same schedule from day to day - saves time. It is also boring and inherently undesirable. As such, the amount of routine a person engages in is partly an economic outcome, with variations in routine generated by variations in the price of time, household income and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718651
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Household vs. Personal Accounts of the U.S. Labor Market, 1965-2000
Mulligan, Casey; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
The empirical labor supply literature includes some simple aggregate studies, and some individual-level studies explicitly accounting for heterogeneity and the discrete choice, but sometimes leaving open the ultimately aggregate questions that motivated the study. As a middle ground, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720687
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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labor-saving technological progress. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088909
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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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