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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2015

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...

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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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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...

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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 … alimony is due, at least in part, to differences in their preferences and costs for children. The estimated effects are larger …

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Domestic violence, intrahousehold bargaining and child health development in Ghana

Nuhu, Ahmed Salim - 2015

I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes of their children using micro data from Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, 2008. Using the 2 SLS-IV estimation technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child...

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It's a boy! : women and non-monetary benefits from a son in India

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they derive substantial long-run non-monetary benefits from giving birth to a son in the form of an improvement in their...

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Marriage payments and bargaining power of women in rural Bangladesh

Mansoor, Nazia - 2011

This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using data from rural Bangladesh in 1998-1999 it investigates whether women in a relatively strong bargaining position at the time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position...

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One-child policy and marriage market in China

Han, Jun; Zhao, Zhong - 2021

This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as a cut-off point, the one-child policy has increased the leftover proportion about 1.2%, with...

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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...

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