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Ashraf, Nava - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1245-1277

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Estimating individual total costs of domestic violence

Santos, Cristina - 2008

This paper estimates total individual costs of domestic violence. It draws on a cross-section survey that includes data on self-reported victimization variables, individual income and a self-reported life satisfaction variable. Using a life satisfaction approach, it estimates the variation in...

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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey

Kırdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2011

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...

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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015

One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...

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Household behavior and the marriage market

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2013

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

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Marital matching, economies of scale and intrahousehold allocations

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Surana, Khushboo; … - 2016

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … behavior. The method imposes no parametric structure on household decision processes, accounts for unobserved preference … heterogeneity across individuals in different households, and requires only a single consumption observation per household. Our main …

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Conditional cash transfers for women and spousal violence : evidence of the long-term relationship from the Oportunidades program in Rural Mexico

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Castro, Roberto; Morales, Juan S. - 2015

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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Family-specific investments and divorce : a theory of dynamically inconsistent household behavior

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016

-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family … standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …

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Partnership dissolution : how does it affect income, employment and well-being?

Brewer, Mike; Nandi, Alita - 2014

We assess comprehensively how incomes, employment, housing, mental health and life satisfaction change following a partnership dissolution, using data from 18 waves of BHPS. We confirm that women and children see living standards decline by more than men, on average, upon separation, but find...

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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss

Triebe, Doreen - 2015

whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493166

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