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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited
Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016
This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579569
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Marriage and marriage markets
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572290
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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017
specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts … for (potentially unequal) resource sharing and jointness in consumption (generating economies of scale). Results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628207
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Quality of Available Mates, Education and Intra-Household Bargaining Power
Oreffice, Sonia; Negrusa, Brighita - 2006
in the spouse's potential marriage market increases wives' bargaining power in the household while it lowers their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054645
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Will women save more than men? : a theoretical model of savings and marriage
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Pereira, Alfredo M. - 2010
This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997600
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Will Women Save More than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139496
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The disappearing gender gap : the impact of divorce, wages, and preferences on education choices and women’s work
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516927
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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119017
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International migration of couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388635
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …
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