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We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …
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incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the … effects are regressed on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits using cross-section and fixed …
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Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. We find conditions under which a stable...
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Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on … children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? In this paper, we develop a … noncooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using … status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is … status of biological and in-law families means that marriage accounts for more than one third of total intergenerational …
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in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven …
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The objective of the paper is to find empirically whether husbands and wives tend to retire at the same time, and to give an explanation of the findings. Similarity of retirement dates could be caused by similarity of tastes (assortative mating), by economic variables, or by the complimentarity...
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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 …
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