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Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no longer the exclusive context of family formation. In the United States (US) for instance, the number of unmarried couples nearly doubled in the 1990s, from 3:2 million couples in...
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This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in particular. We argue that increases in female human...
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Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … the hypothesis that maternal gender role attitudes affect daughters' economic opportunities only, we find no effect on …
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