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Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey
Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition,...
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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 a source of exogenous variation in education, this paper estimates the causal effect of schooling on age at first marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half...
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The Impact of Women's Age at Marriage on Own and Spousal Labor Market Outcomes in India : Causation or Selection?
Dhamija, Gaurav; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2019
The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists. The focus of this literature, however, has been the developed world and almost nothing is known about how a delay in marriage affects labor market prospects of women in...
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Television and family demography : evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany
Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2024
This paper examines the causal effects of television exposure on individual decisions regarding marriage, divorce, and family planning by utilizing a natural experiment in the German Democratic Republic during the period of German division. I exploit the fact that individuals in some East German...
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Training the untrained? : intensive training for long-term unemployed immigrants
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Bolvig, Iben - 2023
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The tower of Babel in the classroom : immigrants and natives in Italian schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568772
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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568812
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Interethnic marriages and their economic effects
Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2012
intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration. -- intermarriage ; immigration … surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds … with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533328
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Can pro-marriage policies work? : an analysis of marginal marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345876