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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse...

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America's settling down : How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930

Cvrcek, Tomas - 2010

. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their … immigration primarily affected the whites' marriage market which is why the changes in marital behavior are much more pronounced …

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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

Galenianos, Manolis - 2009

A search-theoretic model of the retail market for illegal drugs is developed. Trade occurs in bilateral, potentially … is present because buyers learn purity only after a trade is made. The model produces testable implications regarding the …

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Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification : Illustrated by Racial/Ethnic Classification in Medical Risk Assessment

Manski, Charles F.; Mullahy, John; Venkataramani, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

A common practice in evidence-based decision-making uses estimates of conditional probabilities P(y|x) obtained from research studies to predict outcomes y on the basis of observed covariates x. Given this information, decisions are then based on the predicted outcomes. Researchers commonly...

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Changes in Marital Sorting : Theory and Evidence from the US

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions of the characteristic along which sorting takes...

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Survivors' Mental Health and the Protective Role of Income Stability

Fadlon, Itzik; Fugleholm, Astrid Sophie; Nielsen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use administrative records on the healthcare utilization and economic outcomes of the universe of Danish households to characterize survivors' mental health following their spouse's death. We provide visually clear evidence for the inevitable immediate, large, and lingering adverse impacts...

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Does Old Age Social Security Help Children? The Impact of Social Security on Grandchild Resources

Schmidt, Lucie; Shore-Sheppard, Lara D.; Watson, Tara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Though Social Security is typically considered a program to support retirees, nearly one in ten children live in a home with Social Security income. Children are substantially more likely to live with an older adult than they were two decades ago, and they are twice as likely to report Social...

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Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation

Couture, Victor; Dingel, Jonathan I.; Green, Allison E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study how preferences over the demographic composition of co-patrons affects income segregation in shared spaces. To distinguish demographic preferences from tastes for other venue attributes, we study venue choices within business chains. We find two notable regularities: preferences for...

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Passing as White : Racial Identity and Old-Age Longevity

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In the presence of segregation and discrimination during the late 19th and early 20th century, many African American men changed their racial identity and "passed" for white. Previous studies have suggested that this activity was associated with increases in income and socioeconomic status...

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A New Measure of Surviving Children that Sheds Light on Long-term Trends in Fertility

Malani, Anup; Jacob, Ari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The world has experienced a dramatic decline in total fertility rate (TFR) since the Industrial Revolution. Yet the consequences of this decline flow not merely from a reduction in births, but from a reduction in the number of surviving children. We propose a new measure of the number of...

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