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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice

Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301

births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This …

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Changing sex-ratios among immigrant communities in the U.S.

Hernández Catañeda, Adriana; Sørensen, Todd A. - 2018

immigration to the United States. We approach this study from two different dimensions to document some of the forces driving this … change in the sex-ratio. The first approach, focusing on changes between birth cohorts, demonstrates that immigration is …

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Partner search and demographics : the marriage squeeze in India

Sautmann, Anja - 2011 - First version: December 2009

Abstract. If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payoffs to study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a...

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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics

Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model I show that,...

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Consequences of War : Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market

Ogasawara, Kota - 2019

This study explores the effects of sex-ratio imbalance on both the quantity and quality of children, as outcomes of intra-household bargaining. We first demonstrate the theoretical model on intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple; we show that an...

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Girls not brides : evolution of child marriage in Pakistan

Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2020

Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over time...

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Partner Search and Demographics : The Marriage Squeeze in India

Sautmann, Anja - 2011

If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payoffs to study if this so-calledmarriage squeeze has caused a dowry...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178384

Consequences of War : Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market

Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021

This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...

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Fifty years a-growing : economic history and demography in the ESR

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty in all, they cover a broad chronological and thematic range. Some of these papers never attracted much notice, but stand as useful sources for future historians. A few have...

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Immigration policies and their impact : the case of New Zealand and Australia

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2000

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a … description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the … contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …

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