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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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The vicious circle of xenophobia : immigration and right-wing populism

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2025

We investigate the relationship between immigration and right-wing populism, which we characterize as a self …-country evidence shows that low-skill immigration tends to exacerbate populism, while high-skill immigration tends to mitigate it …

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Populism and the skill-content of globalization : evidence from the last 60 years

Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022

investigate the ”global” determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as …-industrialization and of internet expansion. Low-skill immigration, on the other hand, tends to induce a transfer of votes from left-wing to … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …

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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...

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Why the Marriage Squeeze Cannot Cause Dowry Inflation

Anderson, Siwan - 2001

It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth. According to that explanation, termed the "marriage squeeze," a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage...

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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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899498

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267558

Did the Black Death cause economic development by "inventing" fertility restriction?

Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2018

Voigtländer and Voth argue that the Black Death shifted England towards pastoral agriculture, increasing wages for unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this argument does not hold. Its crucial assumption is...

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The marriage age U-shape

Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during the twentieth century. First, I show that the U-shaped dynamics have been steeper in Western that in other countries. Second, I find that these dynamics in Western Europe are...

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