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Marrying Up : The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching
Abramitzky, Ran - 2009
exogenous shock to the French male population due to WWI casualties. We analyze a novel data set that links marriage-level data … with military mortality, which exhibits exogenous geographic variation. We find that men married women of higher social … ratio from one man for every woman to 0.90 men for every woman increased the probability that men married up by 8 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720415
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Marrying Up : The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching
Abramitzky, Ran; Delavande, Adeline; Vasconcelos, Luis I. - 2011
gap decreased. These findings are consistent with men improving their position in the marriage market as they become …We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage … market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the number of French men. Using a difference-in-differences approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186865
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Marital status and retirement : an empirical study for France
Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2019
models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002260
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The Missing Men : World War I and Female Labor Force Participation
Boehnke, Jörn - 2020
Using spatial variation in World War I military fatalities in France, we show that the scarcity of men due to the war … suggest that increased female labor supply accounts for this result. In particular, deteriorated marriage market conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854547
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Positive and negative preferences in human mate selection
Vaillant, Nicolas Gérard; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Review of Economics of the Household 9 (2011) 2, pp. 273-291
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306812
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443
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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide descriptive evidence on the statistical association in several socio-economic attributes of partners among French couples (annual earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945228
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Marital Status and Retirement : An Empirical Study for France
Doorley, Karina - 2019
models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870187
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Assortative mating and earnings inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide descriptive evidence on the statistical association in several socio-economic attributes of partners among French couples (annual earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738840
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Broken homes and empty pantries : the impact of couple separation on living standards in France
Mink, Julia - 2024
This study sheds new light on the impact of couple separation on living standards by considering the effects of separation on measures reflecting the adequacy of food consumption in addition to more commonly studied income and expenditure measures. Using panel data from France, I examine changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533296