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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
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Marriage and marriage markets
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …
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Household savings and marriage payments : evidence from dowry in India
Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2018
This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …
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The decision to work by married immigrant women : the role of extended family households
Antecol, Heather (contributor); Bedard, Kelly (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We find differential rates of cohabitation with adult relatives as well as differential impacts of that cohabitation on the probability of employment for married female immigrants across regions of origin. This suggests that traditions and/or cultural determinants of family structure influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001769496
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Body-weight and women's hours of work : more evidence that marriage markets matter
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664273
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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides
Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018
An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...
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Changes in the labor supply behavior of married women: 1980 - 2000
Blau, Francine D. (contributor);  … - 2006
in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339775
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Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work : More Evidence that Marriage Markets Matter
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955043
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Bride kidnapping and labour supply behaviour of married Kyrgyz women
Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Kudebayeva, Alma; Mussurov, Altay - 2021
Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use these predictions to estimate the participation...
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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal
Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017
In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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