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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319577
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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported … remittances among the migrants (after instrumenting), consistent with the view that marriage improves labor market outcomes and …The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081757
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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419016
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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679814
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The Role of Labor and Marriage Markets, Preference Heterogeneity and the Welfare System in the Life Cycle Decisions of Black, Hispanic and White Women
Keane, Michael P. - 2006
women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We … observed minority-majority differences in behavior can be attributed to differences in labor market opportunities, marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734133
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The Labor-Supply Effects of Universal Health Coverage : What Can We Learn from Individuals with Spousal Coverage?
Wellington, Alison J.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We examine the labor-supply implications of universal health coverage by studying individuals who receive insurance through their spouses' employers. We find that spousal coverage has the largest impact on the labor-supply behavior of wives. Wives with spousal coverage have participation rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190527
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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women
Eckstein, Zvi - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096154
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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Raaum, Oddbjorn - 2007
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775849
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Schooling and labor market effects of temporary authorization : evidence from DACA
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2016
This paper explores the labor market and schooling effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which provides work authorization to eligible immigrants along with a temporary reprieve from deportation. The analysis relies on a difference-in-differences approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523171
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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