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Globalizing households and multi-ethnic community building in Japan

Ishii, Chihiro - 2010

The East Asian countries are currently experiencing declining fertility rates and aging of their populations. The demographic transition is beginning to affect various societal functions, and increasing international migrants are becoming one of the responses to the transition, despite the...

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Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brito, Emilia; Clarke, Damian; … - 2021

We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence. Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of distress related to domestic violence, while decreasing domestic violence reports...

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Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India

Das, Shreyasee; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2022

This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

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Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia

Dervisevic, Ervin; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2021

Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time spent with children, which is also a critical input into...

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The economics of marriage in North Africa

Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline - 2014

Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet … little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of … marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed …

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Contested relationships: Women's economic and social empowerment, insights from the transfer of material assets in Bangladesh

Scott, Lucy - 2012

This article examines the relationship between women's economic and social empowerment in the context of extreme poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the processes resulting from the implementation of the Chars...

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Ties that bind: The kin system as a mechanism of income-hiding between spouses in rural Ghana

Castilla, Carolina - 2013

I present a model of intra-household allocation to show that when income is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation in the degree of asymmetric information between...

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Marriage, work, and migration: The role of infrastructure development and gender norms

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019

opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …

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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth: Evidence from Bangladesh

Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016

reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect … variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …

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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. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...

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