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Gender Norms and Domestic Abuse: Evidence From Australia

Zhang, Yinjunjie; Breunig, Robert - 2021

Australia conforms to the gender norm that women should earn less than their male partners. We investigate the impact of violating this cultural norm on the incidence of domestic violence and emotional abuse against women and men in Australia. Violating the male breadwinning norm results in a 35...

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Gender norms and domestic abuse: evidence from Australia

Zhang, Yinjunjie; Breunig, Robert - 2021

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My baby takes the morning train : gender identity, fairness, and relative labor supply within households

Lepinteur, Anthony; Fleche, Sarah; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2016

husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is …

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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well

Halla, Martin - 2015

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...

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Intermarriage and the economic success of immigrants : who is the driving factor - the native spouses or the immigrants themselves?

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2015

Marriages between immigrants and natives (intermarriages) are often associated with economic success and interpreted as an indicator of social integration. Intermarried immigrant men are on average better educated and work in better paid jobs than nonintermarried immigrant men. In this context,...

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Human capital effects of marriage payments : investing in femal human capital can reduce brideprice and dowry practices and increase welfare

Anderson, Siwan - 2014

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

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Diffusion of a social norm : tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812 - 1922

Poppel, Frans van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, Evelien - 2006

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing

Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

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The effects of recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive

Kondo, Ayako - 2016

Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often being considered a primary cause. However, economic theory is not conclusive about whether deterioration in youth employment prospects actually discourages family formation or for...

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