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Where There is a Will : Fertility Behavior and Sex Bias in Large Families
Jain, Tarun - 2013
This paper argues that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India, even when parents do not treat boys and girls differently. Tests using panel data from...
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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652849
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Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline –albeit non-significant– in the number of marriages. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322784
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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392711
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Brothers increase women's gender conformity
Brenøe, Anne Ardila - 2021
I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420246
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Female household-headship in rural Bangladesh : incidence, determinants and impact on children's schooling
Joshi, Shareen - 2004
This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610596
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Modern body mass index values, marital status, and household size : 1980s to the present
Carson, Scott Alan - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016057
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Keeping Women in Business (and Family)
Wilson, Robin Fretwell - 2011
Work and family have become either/or propositions for a growing segment of young professionals in business, law, and … but opt out of family. These men and women forego parenting and stable, long-term relationships in surprisingly high … numbers, believing they cannot have both. This Chapter documents the extent of this break from family for professional men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219178
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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh : Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling
Joshi, Shareen - 2004
This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female household-heads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069858
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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...
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