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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment

Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse … less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with unilateral divorce laws--especially individuals who were exposed … to the laws when making educational choices and who live in states requiring an even split of assets upon divorce …

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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Kinship Structure and the Family : Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Kinship structure - how extended families are organized - varies across societies and may have implications for outcomes within the household. A key source of variation in kinship structure is whether lineage and inheritance are traced through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as...

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The Good Wife? : Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household

Buchmann, Nina; Dupas, Pascaline; Ziparo, Roberta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are entrusted with a larger budget share. We show, first...

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Changes in Marital Sorting : Theory and Evidence from the US

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions of the characteristic along which sorting takes...

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Bargaining over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Doepke, Matthias - 2016

It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...

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Efficiency in Marriage

Lundberg, Shelly - 2001

Economists usually assume that bargaining in marriage leads to efficient outcomes. The most convincing rationale for this assumption is the belief that efficient allocations are likely to emerge from repeated interactions in stationary environments, and that marriage provides such an...

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The Economics of Family Structure

Neal, Derek - 2001

A significant literature in demography and demographic history documents clear relationships between the supply of men with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative to traditional marriage, circumstances that impede...

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Education, Segregation and Marital Sorting : Theory and an Application to UK Data

Fernandez, Raquel - 2001

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter both because of their household income and because parental human capital determines the expected value of a child's disutility from making an effort to become skilled. We show...

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Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions : The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions

Blau, Francine D. - 2000

Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is regressed on personal characteristics and MSA indicators,...

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