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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692077
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries as well as or other (non-Swedish) countries. A … intermarriage (intra-marriage) on annual income from any remaining positive selection effects into respective marriage type. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727331
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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants : differences by gender
Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28
Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … education, native spouses supply more market labor. Intermarriage may also skew bargaining power in favor of native husbands in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707623
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Marriage, work and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910970
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Inter- and intra-marriage premiums revisited : it's probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - 2010
intermarriage premiums are largely due to selection. -- intermarriage ; intra-marriage ; income ; immigration ; assimilation …For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302215
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Educated Couples’ Location Choice and Intra-Household Bargaining
Forouzandeh, Ramin - 2023
For dual-earner, college educated straight couples, I examine the relative weight of spouse career prospects in deciding where to live. I show that higher expected wages for husbands in a potential destination tends to make it more attractive for households, relative to the same increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349399
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited : It's Probably Who You are, Not Who You Marry!
Nekby, Lena - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed … effects model is estimated separately for each marriage type to further disentangle a causal effect of intermarriage (intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135828
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015
This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379718
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The Effect of Female Education on Marital Matches and Child Health in Bangladesh
Hahn, Youjin - 2019
This paper examines the effects of female education on marriage outcomes by exploiting the exogenous variation generated by the Female Secondary School Stipend Program in Bangladesh, which made secondary education free for rural girls. Our findings show that an additional year of female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902591