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To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment … framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the … lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using exogenous variation in female labor supply and divorce rates due …
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This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program. It uses data from three nationally representative surveys that include detailed information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats...
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introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …
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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …
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This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...
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We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage … market outcomes for both men and women. To decompose the overall policy impact on the marriage market equilibrium, we develop …
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In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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Policy-makers have increasingly turned to ‘in-work transfers’ to boost incomes among poorer workers and strengthen work incentives. One attraction of these is that labour supply elasticities are typically greatest at the extensive margin. Because in-work transfers are normally subject to...
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