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Interethnic marriages and their economic effects
Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012
surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533328
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Interethnic Marriages and Their Economic Effects
Furtado, Delia - 2012
surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109422
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Social distancing, stimulus payments, and domestic violence : evidence from the US during COVID-19
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022
We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888406
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From classroom to wedding aisle : the effect of a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law on age at first marriage in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Adireksombat, Kampon - 2010
Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at … first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981597
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The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ethnic Minorities in Manchester
Allen, Ruth; Wiśniowski, Arkadiusz; Aparicio Castro, Andrea - 2021
This rapid review summarises the economic impacts of the pandemic on ethnic minorities, focusing on the city of Manchester. It utilises multiple reporting sources to explore various dimensions of the economic shock in the UK, linking this to studies of pre-COVID-19 economic and ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322276
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the Black/white gap in standard net worth widened from 1989 to 2019 but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social Security and defined benefit pension wealth (both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250217
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Remittances of Migration on an EU Sending Country : In the Case of Impact in Poland
Chrząstowska, Bozenao - 2021
Polish migrants have been bringing norms, values, practices and social capital to their communities of origin since the end of the nineteenth century. This paper sheds light on the unintended consequences of temporary migration from Poland by combining Merton’s functional analysis with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247449
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Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence : Evidence from the Us During COVID-19
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022
We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083841
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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran
Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021
We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601056
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Tax-based marriage incentives in the Affordable Care Act
Isaac, Elliot; Jiang, Haibin - 2022
Surveys and leverage variation in the marriage subsidy created by the ACA’s premium tax credit, individual mandate, and … Medicaid expansion. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate a significant though small positive marriage response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259803