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This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …
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In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual … years after childbirth the income gap is smaller in lesbian than in heterosexual couples also when comparing couples with … norms, regardless of their pre-childbirth income gap. In lesbian couples the partners' relative earnings before parenthood …
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In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual … years after childbirth the income gap is smaller in lesbian than in heterosexual couples also when comparing couples with … norms, regardless of their pre-childbirth income gap. In lesbian couples the partners’ relative earnings before parenthood …
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We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship between time spent on either market or household activities and a dummy for being the highest earner in...
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This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in Australia. Using a triple-difference fixed effects approach we show that existing couples are more likely to make relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws...
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