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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Can Population Growth Cause Dowry Inflation? Theory and the Indian Evidence
Maitra, Sudeshna - Department of Economics, York University - 2006
The empirical evidence on the role of a demographic marriage squeeze in the Indian dowry inflation of the last century has been mixed. Moreover, Anderson (2005) argues in a theoretical setting, that a population growth-led marriage squeeze must cause dowry deflation if the spousal age gap is to...
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions - Working Paper 295
Glassman, Amanda; McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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Changing Household Composition and Female Household Heads--Causes and Implications.
Eberharter, Veronoka V. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 3+4, pp. 298-307
Labor market investigations attribute the weak labor force participation of German women to traditional role patterns. This article explores whether this interpretation can be confirmed by an alternate indicator--the proportion of female household-heads. Using PSID-GSOEP panel data, changes in...
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....
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The Economics of Work and Family
Kimmel, Jean (contributor); Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Kimmel and Hoffman present a set of topical, non-technical papers authored by nationally known experts in this field. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family...
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
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Does a Mature AIDS Epidemic Threaten Growth?
Cuesta, José A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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Population Growth and Rising Dowries: The Long-Run Mechanism of a Marriage Squeeze
Maitra, Sudeshna - Department of Economics, York University - 2006
India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed to a spurt in … that is used to characterize the long-run relationship between population dynamics and marriage payments in India. I show …, dowry payments and a masculine sex ratio.The result holds for parameters consistent with marriage market indicators in India. …
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