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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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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 …
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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 employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …
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the theoretical literature suggesting a positive shock will reduce the benefits of the current marriage and increase the …
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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 … power. This paper provides the first empirical evidence showing that demographic imbalance causes marriage distortion with …
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, the size of earnings and income losses, and the importance of family structure and gender roles. Spousal labor supply …
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There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
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The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using data on several European countries to cast light on the...
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