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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices

Fernandez, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper argues that the evolution of male preferences contributed to the dramatic increase in the proportion of working and educated women in the population over time. Male preferences evolved because some men experienced a different family model one in which their mother was skilled and/or...

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Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior

Blank, Rebecca M.; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Sallee, James M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper investigates the response of young people in the United States to state laws dictating the minimum age at which individuals could marry, with and without parental consent. We use variation across states and over time to document behavioral responses to laws governing the age of...

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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

migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

mothers are much more likely to repeat one or more grades than other children, and within-household estimates of this … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Another finding of interest is that having a father in the household is …

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Social Interactions and Smoking

Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward Ludwig - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Are individuals more likely to smoke when they are surrounded by smokers? In this paper, we examine the evidence for peer effects in smoking. We address the endogeneity of peers by looking at the impact of workplace smoking bans on spousal and peer group smoking. Using these bans as an...

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Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

Watson, Tara; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that people are more likely to marry when their incomes...

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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

a household bargaining model. The relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence … greater share of the household resources. Using instrumental variable and propsensity score techniques to control for …

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...

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"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing

Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility. …

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Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting: Theory and an Application to UK Data

Fernandez, Raquel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

both because of their household income and because parental human capital determines the expected value of a child … household income distribution, and welfare. We calibrate the steady-state of our model to UK statistics and compare a version of … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …

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