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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...

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Sharing housework between husbands and wives : how to improve marital satisfaction for working wives in Japan

Kobayashi, Mayu; Kobayashi, Miki; Okumura, Tsunao; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-15

This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse … satisfaction when the other spouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time …

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Women's optimism, the gender happiness equaliser : a case of South Africa

Greyling, Talita; Fisher, Bianca - 2020

This paper investigates whether there is co-movement in subjective wellbeing (swb) gender gaps and objective wellbeing (owb) gender gaps over time and whether swb gender gaps are caused by gender differences in endowments or by the different ways men and women value the pre-mentioned. This is...

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Divorce, domestic violence, and help seeking

Pisanelli, Elena - 2024

This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims and femicides. I find that contrary to expectations, the reform, which aimed to make divorce cheaper while requiring mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior...

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Impact of the intra-household bargaining power gap on the happiness of married women in China

Ma, Xinxin - In: International journal of happiness and development 6 (2020) 2, pp. 113-142

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Does childbirth change the gender gap in well-being between partners?

Plachá, Veronika - 2024

This study examines gender disparities beyond pay gaps, focusing on the impact of childbirth on overall well-being. Traditional gender roles, especially in parenting, lead to unequal divisions of labor and affect both partners' well-being, yet the shift in well-being after childbirth remains...

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Employee's subjective-well-being and job discretion : designing gendered happy jobs

Bastida, Maria; Neira, Isabel; Lacalle-Calderon, Maricruz - In: European research on management and business economics 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-8

This paper analyses the influence of job discretion on employees' subjective well-being (SWB) from a gender-based approach. Specifically, it explores whether the level of discretion given to employees in performing their jobs influences their SWB and whether this impact differs between women and...

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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 …

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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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