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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969449
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614941
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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren
Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with a more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103527
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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829935
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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829989
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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey
Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105925
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634700
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252666
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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently. The education gender gap was eliminated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325524