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The disappearing gender gap : the impact of divorce, wages, and preferences on education choices and women’s work
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernández, Raquel - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119017
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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …-being, household saving, and even domestic violence and crime. …
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …
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The economics of hypergamy
Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen R.; … - 2019
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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Maternal employment and child outcomes : evidence from the Irish marriage bar
Mosca, Irene; O'Sullivan, Vincent; Wright, Robert E. - 2017
certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …
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