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Women, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Bin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab - 2011
educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …
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Spillover effects of stricter immigration policies
Bratu, Christina; Dahlberg, Matz; Engdahl, Mattias; … - 2018
We evaluate the importance of spillover effects of national migration policies by estimating the effect of stricter rules on family reunification in Denmark in 2002 on migration to neighboring countries. We reach two main conclusions. First, we show that stricter rules for reunification lead to...
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The Impact of the Female Advantage in Education on the Marriage Market
Rodríguez-González, Ana - 2021
formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation …-form relationship between marriage market exposure to the reform and marriage and fertility outcomes. The results show that in marriage …
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Brothers increase women's gender conformity
Brenøe, Anne Ardila - 2021
I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender conformity. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. I show that women with a brother...
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No evidence that siblings' gender affects personality across nine countries
Dudek, Thomas; Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Feld, Jan; Rohrer, … - 2022
Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering 9 countries (the United States, the...
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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...
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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women
Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011
Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...
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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème": Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
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Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing
Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2008
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …
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