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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
the theoretical literature suggesting a positive shock will reduce the benefits of the current marriage and increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581527
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Divorce and the birth control pill
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543666
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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 … significant determinants of child marriage. Our results which control for province fixed effects (e.g. local cultural norms or … and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419046
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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 … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304704
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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 … power. This paper provides the first empirical evidence showing that demographic imbalance causes marriage distortion with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336332
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Institutional change and economic evolution in regions
Grillitsch, Markus - 2014
The overall objective of this paper is to contribute conceptually to the questions why and how regions transform and it joins the debate on economic evolution and institutional change. The paper addresses the challenge of how to conceptualise the interdependencies of institutions of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487791
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Current trends in E-learning development
Zakota, Zoltan - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 207-720
E-learning, electronic or digital education, is one of the areas in which information and communication technologies, if although not in the most spectacular way, but have certainly had the deepest impact. All that first seemed to be just an extension of distance learning, and then of the...
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Effects and characteristics of the implementation of the 1921 agrarian reform in Iaşi county
Doboş, Sebastian - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 34-41). 2017
The historiographical and socio-economic topic of the 1918-1921 agrarian reform, marked by a considerable degree of difficulty due to a multitude of objective, quantitative as well as qualitative factors, represents a point of reference in the research endeavours focused on the social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849620
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Testing unified growth theory : technological progress and the child quantity-quality trade-of
Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2021
A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the period 1750-2000, we test, for the first time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328306
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Does trade cause long-run development? : theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Gerritse, Michiel - 2015 - Preliminary
Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do...
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