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In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise …
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This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to …
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This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
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marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch … marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study compares the durations of marriages that began on Valentine's Day …
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This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …
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hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …
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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have …
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