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Evidence from many countries shows that as societies modernise and women’s status rises, son preference declines. Yet in China the sex ratio at birth has been the highest in the world for over two decades despite rapid modernisation, urbanisation and huge improvements in women’s...
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boundaries and the marriage distance exceeds 1,000 kilometres. At destination, it is a combination of factors such as … brides bought, given in exchange for a bride-price or trafficked. They are a new kind of commercially mediated marriage …
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The article provides an empirical examination of the transitional dynamics of individuals choosing between marriage … to determine what influences the transitions of individuals from cohabitation to mar-riage or being single. A higher … income for the male partner increases the likelihood of the couple transiting to marriage. A higher income for the female …
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confronting women throughout the world—including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining …
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confronting women throughout the world—including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining …
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This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...
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(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …
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relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …
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It is known that the number of marriages concluded in general in a geographic area follows a cyclical trend due primarily to religious factors. In this study we wanted to test whether this assumption is maintained in the past four years. On the other hand, we wanted to look at the indices of...
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`marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women.As a result, dowry … payments rise in order to clear the marriage market.The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do not re-enter the … marriage market.This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry inflation in a proper dynamic …
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