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Fatter attraction: Marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2009
or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279629
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Fatter attraction : marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2009
or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits. -- Body Size ; Labor Supply ; Earnings … ; Marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840047
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Fatter Attraction : Marital Status and the Relationship between BMI and Labor Supply
Oreffice, Sonia - 2010
or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149440
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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 marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally … the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported …-marital partners than single men, but this regression does not account for selective entry into marriage. Indeed, the marriage effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081757
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Health insurance coverage and marriage behavior : is there evidence of marriage lock?
Chen, Tianxu - In: International studies of economics 18 (2023) 2, pp. 136-158
Premiums and eligibility for health insurance may cause a "marriage lock," in which couples stay married for the sake … estimates thus provide evidence that marriage lock exists. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289458
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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725327
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"How many hours would you want to work a week?" : job quality and the omitted variables bias in labour supply models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008 - This version: May 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632752
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Do parents drink their children's welfare? A joint analysis of intra-household allocation of time
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293105
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Do parents drink their children’s welfare? : intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251344
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Do parents drink their children's welfare? A joint analysis of intra-household allocation of time.
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610057