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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in Los Angeles

Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K. - 2020

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...

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Quantifying domestic violence in times of crisis

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siudae, Fabian - 2020

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reﬂect a low reporting-propensity, exacerbated by the lockdown measures....

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Quantifying domestic violence in times of crisis

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siuda, Fabian - 2020

We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based on internet search activity and (ii) makes precise the conditions under which this measure yields less biased estimates of the domestic violence problem during periods of...

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The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income households : savings, labor supply, and household formation

Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2020

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household …

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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020

We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...

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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …

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The ant or the grasshopper? : the long-term consequences of unilateral divorce laws on savings of European households

Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Stella, Luca; Weiss, … - 2016

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to UDLs for longer time accumulate more savings. This effect...

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Cleaning in the shadow of the law? : bargaining, marital investment, and the impact of divorce law on husbands' intra-household work

Roff, Jennifer - 2017

Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …, little research has examined how divorce laws may affect males' household production and the gender distribution of household …

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The economics of hypergamy

Almås, Ingvild; Kotsadam, Andreas; Moen, Espen R.; … - 2019

Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...

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