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We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …, reflecting a rise in the family-career complementarity. For women, the family-career trade-off has eased for non … developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …
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cooperation. -- Gender ; cohabitation ; marriage ; divorce ; alimony ; matrimonial property ; fertility ; division of labour …
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result counters the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. …
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This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … workers with high effort levels above the 60th residual earnings percentile, we find large gender differences in promotion …
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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent …
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …
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estimated model to quantify the impact of the significant reduction in the gender wage gap since the 1980s on marriage outcomes …
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role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition …
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In many societies, men work for more hours and acquire higher wages if they have sons versus daughters. Gender bias … behavior; among these, gender bias has received stronger support from empirical studies. Using a four-year panel dataset, we … show that a different institutional setting may make men respond to their children's gender differently. We study men …
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