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Kirkeboen, Lars; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the question of why college graduates are so likely to marry someone within their...

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Marriage Matching over Five Centuries in China

Shiue, Carol H.; Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through the lens of a model of marriage matching and...

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan

Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008

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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment

Ghironi, Fabio - 2007

Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …

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Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US

Lewis, Karen K. - 2006

capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …

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Bond Markets as Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2006

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …

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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice

Baker, Laurence C. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...

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A Historical Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis : Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990

Rhode, Paul W. - 2000

The Tiebout hypothesis, which states that individuals will costlessly sort themselves across local communities according to their public good preferences, is the workhorse of the local public finance literature. This paper develops a test of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in...

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A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools : The Role of Mobility, Targeting, and Private School Vouchers

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1999

. Furthermore, strong migration effects are shown to significantly improve the likely equity consequences of voucher programs …

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