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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 exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...

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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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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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Income polarization and stagnation in a stochastic model of growth : when the demand side matters

Gries, Thomas - 2019

This contribution is motivated by two stylized observations, the slowdown in growth, and a simultaneous income polarization in many advanced economies. While mainstream neoclassical and endogenous growth theory cannot sufficiently explain the nexus, we argue that the demand side plays a role. We...

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Distributional effects of surging housing costs under Schwabe's law of rent

Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; Löfflad, Hans Torben; … - 2019

The upward sloping trend of rents and house prices has initiated a debate on the consequences of surging housing costs for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the...

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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?

Rao, Ziwei - 2021

This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by … exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at …

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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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Is there a fertility paradox in Denmark?

Lauridsen, Jørgen - 2015

Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to … economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several … the fertility rate during the years 1982 to 2004. Several factors commonly believed to explain the variation in the …

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Space-time dynamics of fertility and commuting

Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014

The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour … market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects fertility. The analytical model, decomposing spatial interaction of … fertility and commuting, is constructed on the base of a model of the demand for children, spatial stock-flow model, and a …

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