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What do social scientists know about the benefits of marriage? : A review of quantitative methodologies

Ribar, David C. - 2004

assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical … also discusses models of the determinants of marriage. The study then overviews specific statistical techniques that have … been applied in empirical analyses of the effects of marriage, including standard regression, instrumental variables …

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The demographic transition: Causes and consequences

Galor, Oded - 2012

This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014

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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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that "who gets what" is significantly dependent upon "who earns how much." However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...

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Earnings over the lifecycle: the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007

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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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004

It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....

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Fatter attraction: anthropometric and socioeconomic characteristics in the marriage market

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2009

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have …

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Couple's relative labor supply in intermarriage

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011

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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Black-white marital matching: Race, anthropometrics, and socioeconomics

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2011

We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using …

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