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Relative labor supply in intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-27
and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages …
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A fixed-effects multilevel analysis of how community family structure affects individual mortality in Norway
Kravdal, Øystein - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
that level, into the models. The positive health externality of marriage that has been suggested in the literature is … for both sexes, that marriage perhaps undermines rather than strengthens social cohesion, or that other mechanisms are …
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The Puzzle of Marriage Migration in India
Fulford, Scott Lansing - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2012
its causes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, marriage migration does not contribute to risk sharing. Nor is it driven by …Two thirds of all Indian women have migrated for marriage, around 300 million women, but little is known about this … vast migration. This paper provides a detailed accounting of the puzzlingly large migration of Indian women and evaluates …
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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...
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Relative labor supply in intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-27
and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586007
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Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, and What They Reveal about Successful Integration
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 15, pp. 112-120
Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...
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Inter-ethnische Partnerschaften: was sie auszeichnet - und was sie über erfolgreiche Integration aussagen
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 11, pp. 12-20
Partnerschaften zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen gelten gemeinhin als Ergebnis erfolgreicher sozialer Integration und möglicherweise treibende Kraft hinter ökonomischem Erfolg. So verfügen inter-ethnisch lebende Migrantinnen und Migranten über eine höhere Schulbildung, einen besseren...
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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...
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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi
Joshi, Shareen - 2004
This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369195
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Female household-headship in rural Bangladesh : incidence, determinants and impact on children's schooling
Joshi, Shareen - 2004
This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610596