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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as … from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who … eventually intermarry receive greater returns to experience indicating better labor market integration …

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

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Marriage Markets in Developing Countries

Anukriti, S - 2017

This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and spousal decision-making after a marriage has occurred. Lastly, we discuss trends and rationales for...

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Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married

Mundra, Kusum - 2018

There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...

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But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage

Rose, Elaina - 2014

Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...

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Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey

Chort, Isabelle; Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition,...

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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021

It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....

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Marriage and Consumption Insurance : What's Love Got to Do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2021

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their idiosyncratic labor income risk. Ceteris paribus, an individual would prefer to marry a "hedge" (i.e., a spouse whose income is negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her...

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Marriage markets in developing countries

Anukriti, S; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2017

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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...

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