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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 339-372

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich, women had few rights before economic development took...

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The nature of conflict

Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015

This research establishes that the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrastate conflicts in the modern era reflect the long shadow of prehistory. Exploiting variations across national populations, it demonstrates that genetic diversity, as determined predominantly during the...

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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 2016

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Relational contracts, taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by self interest, given the specific pattern of specialisation and exchange which exists in the...

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Relational contracts, taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009

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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy: another look at the economics of marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …

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Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016

inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

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An economic approach to marriage

Loužek, Marek - In: Journal of applied economics 25 (2022) 1, pp. 300-315

deals with the dilemma between monogamy and polygamy on marriage markets. The sixth part confronts the economics of marriage …The purpose of this paper is to outline an economic approach to marriage. The first part contains an introduction to … the economics of a family. The second part analyses the marriage market. The third part discusses the division of …

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