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Marcén, Miriam - 2013

This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment … US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral contraceptive methods has a negative impact on divorce. These findings … the state level. Additional analysis, developed to examine whether the impact of subsequent divorce law reforms on divorce …

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Socio-economic determinants of child marriage : evidence from the Iranian provinces

Asna-ashary, Mozhgan; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, … - 2020 - This version: 22.01.2020

We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...

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Paying for the selected son : sex imbalance and marriage payments in China

Xu, Yuanwei - 2021

This paper shows that the rising male surplus has strengthened marriage distortions in China by causing an increase in brideprice payments. The identification relies on comparison between siblings from the same natal family who are born in different birth years and thus exposed to various...

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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty

Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...

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Characteristics of the demographic system in the Romanian rural area : developments at the regional level in the post-accession period and perspectives

Bucur, Sorinel Ionel - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 139-143). 2023

Over the time, demography has been the subject of multiple researches, given its importance in the development process of any community. The population and the changes in its structure, as well as aspects related to birth, mortality or specific demographic indicators (economic dependency rate...

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Not always for richer or poorer : the effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Brown, Heather W.; Battu, Harminder; Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2013

in house prices at the regional level impact on the likelihood of divorce. We use information from 18 waves (1991 … tenure show a small positive significant increase in the likelihood of divorce for couples in mortgaged property and private … with mortgages may increase the pay-offs for divorce reducing the returns to remaining in the current partnership. For …

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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany

Beznoska, Martin - 2019

Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...

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Job loss and health spillovers in the family

Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jenstrom, Laura; … - 2020

A sizable literature documents that displaced workers suffer substantial negative consequences in the labor market and health. These effects may extend to the partner or spouse through household decision-making. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient...

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...

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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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