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find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are … public donation drives across 412 villages, we find that those who do not support child marriage are no longer perceived as … marriage and teenage pregnancies decrease by nearly 30% in those villages, one year after the intervention. …
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In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married …: where the prevalence of child marriage is high, those who do not marry off their under-age daughters are perceived as less … visible alternative to child marriage for parents who are only willing to engage in it out of social image concerns. One year …
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We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form specifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in...
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Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly …
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; marriage market ; transfers …
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rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …
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Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942114
rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052555
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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