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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad; Quinto, Alicia de - 2021
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …
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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
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …
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Marriage, fertility, and labor force participation of Thai women : an econometric study
Maurer, Kenneth; Ratajczak, Rosalinda; Schultz, T. Paul - 1973
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Familiy stability and labor market gender convergence
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim - 2009
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Revisiting "mothers and sons" preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland
Bütikofer, Aline - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 20 (2013), pp. 82-91
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Do Family Policies Affect Births, Maternal Employment and Marital Stability?
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2021
the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …
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The Commodification of Intimacy : Marriage, Sex, and Reproductive Labor
Constable, Nicole - 2010
Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross-border marriages, migrant domestic workers, and sex workers have burgeoned, demonstrating growing scholarly...
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