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Traditional norms, access to divorce and women's empowerment
Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022
Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264803
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Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022
Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081947
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The Retirement Prospects of Divorced Women
Butrica, Barbara A. - 2015
For decades, policymakers have discussed how to remedy the high poverty rates of older widows. Yet older divorced women are more likely to be poor than older widows, and historical divorce and remarriage trends suggest that in the future a larger share of retired women will be divorced. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037254
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Divorce, domestic violence, and help seeking
Pisanelli, Elena - 2024
This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims and femicides. I find that contrary to expectations, the reform, which aimed to make divorce cheaper while requiring mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530239
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Human capital effects of marriage payments : investing in femal human capital can reduce brideprice and dowry practices and increase welfare
Anderson, Siwan - 2014
Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420043
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Impacts of Changes in Marriage Law : Implications for Fertility and Educational Attainment of Women
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2009
In 1957 the state of Mississippi amended its marriage law. Changes included raising the minimum age for men and women … Mississippi fell by more than 60 percent in 2 years. This paper examines the causal impact of the change in marriage law on … marriage rates, fertility and educational attainment of women who were affected by the change in law. After the passage of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720891
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800558
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Determination of the Dates of Passage of the Married Women's Property Acts and Earnings Acts
Lueck, Dean; Tennyson, Sharon L.; Geddes, Rick - 2012
The purpose of this document is to analyze and record the dates of passage of state-level acts in the United States that granted married women the right to own and control property separate from their husbands, and the date of passage of acts granting married women the right to own their market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207873
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572290
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Economic opportunities and gender equity : the migration and education decisions of young women from rural China
Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan - 2019
permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003780