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Marital Risk, Family Insurance and Public Policy

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2009

quantitative results indicate that the declining number of marriages coupled with increasing divorce rates had a profound effect on …

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...

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Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production : A Longitudinal Microeconomic Analysis of Marriage, Intra-Household Bargaining and Time Use Using the BHPS, 1991-2008

Goussé, Marion; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018

production, match-specific shocks and endogenous divorce. We study nonparametric identification using panel data on marital …

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Marriage and Housework

Borra, Cristina; Browning, Martin; Sevilla, Almudena - 2020

This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Permanent unobserved heterogeneity explains about half of the observed differences in housework...

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Marriage : For Love, for Money….And for Time?

Vernon, Victoria - 2010

Married couples enjoy meaningful economies in time, often choosing to specialize where one spouse focuses on market work and the other on household production and childcare. Using data from the American Time Use Survey 2003-2008, I estimate significant marriage effects upon time use. Most...

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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss

Triebe, Doreen - 2015

This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...

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The disappearing gender gap : the impact of divorce, wages, and preferences on education choices and women’s work

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - 2011

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to … to change asymmetrically for women versus men. -- divorce ; labor force participation ; gender gap ; education and skill …

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Are boys and girls affected differently when the household head leaves for good? : evidence from school and work choices in Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla (contributor); Mesnard, Alice (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce …

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The Disappearing Gender Gap : The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Fernández, Raquel - 2011

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119017

The Effect of Marital Dissolution on the Labour Supply of Males and Females : Evidence from Canada

Mueller, Richard - 2013

The literature on divorce and labour supply generally analyzes standard labour supply measures such as annual hours … to address the effects of divorce on five time dimensions simultaneously. For males, we find that divorce can result in … short-term labour supply changes as high as 10-20% of pre-divorce labour supply levels, depending on the time dimension and …

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