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This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males … intraracially married black males into destination states differentially. -- interracial marriage ; migration ; anti …
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Female marriage-related migration from less-developed nations to high-income ones is rapidly rising in Asia. Using a …
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Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than their husbands than would occur with random matching. The large...
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This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...
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additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an individual with eight … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are … significantly weaker for men. -- arranged marriage ; education ; schooling ; freedom of choice ; development ; Vietnam ; Red River …
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additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an individual with eight … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are …
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730834
This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...
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