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Frontier history and gender norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2024

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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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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Marriage, children, and labor supply: beliefs and outcomes

Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2020

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing...

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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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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...

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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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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...

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Why are Married Women Working so Much?

Jones, Larry E.; Manuelli, Rodolfo E.; McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2008

We study the large observed changes in labor supply by married women in the United States over 1950-1990, a period when labor supply by single women has hardly changed at all. We investigate the effects of changes in the gender wage gap, technological improvements in the production of nonmarket...

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Cyclicality of Hours Worked by Married Women and Spousal Insurance

Ellieroth, Kathrin - 2017

I document that married women's hours worked are significantly less cyclical than hours worked by married men and singles and argue that spousal insurance contributes to the low cyclicality. Analyzing volatility, transition rates, and household behavior, I show that (i) married women experience...

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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 …

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