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How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue?

yamamura, Eiji - 2009

This paper explored how the degree of female spouses’ political interest affects male spouses’ views about women’s empowerment, using individual level data in Japan. Controlling for unobserved city size and area-specific fixed effects, results showed that males were likely to consider...

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How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue?

yamamura, Eiji - 2009

This paper explored how the degree of female spouses’ political interest affects male spouses’ views about women’s empowerment, using individual level data in Japan. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects, results showed that males were likely to consider women’s...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218050

How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue?

Yamamura, Eiji - 2009

This paper explored how the degree of female spouses’ political interest affects male spouses’ views about women’s empowerment, using individual level data in Japan. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects, results showed that males were likely to consider women’s...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218950

Divorce and the Option Value of Marital Search

Filoso, Valerio - 2007

strong evidence that the legal innovation actually lowered the age at marriage, thereby worsening the level of marital …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220224

Match of the Day: The search for a suitable spouse

Bram, Avraham; Seyhan, Eda - 2011

The institutions of family and marriage may seem beyond the remit of economics, involving complexities which the …, one of the first studies to subject decisions about sex, marriage, childbearing and childrearing to economic analysis …

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Differing Labor Supply: A Study on the Role of Culture

Behera, Sarthak; Sadana, Divya - 2021

In this paper, we study the role of peoples’ attitudes on their labor market behavior. Focusing within a household, we estimate how one's labor market decisions are dependent on their partner’s labor market outcomes, and how these decisions are driven by their culture component....

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The impact of women's age at marriage on own and spousal labor market outcomes in India: causation or selection?

Dhamija, Gaurav; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2018

The labor market impacts of women's age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing … literature by providing the first comprehensive assessment of the relationship between women's age at marriage and own as well as …

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Child rights & child development in India: a regional analysis

Roy, Chandan - 2011

Being the signatory of UNCRC (1992), India globally recognized the significance of child rights. The Constitutions of India also guarantees certain child rights covering basic issues, like ‘health’, ‘education’ and protection from ‘hazardous employment’ and ‘exploitation’....

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Homogenous Agent Wage-Posting Model with Wage Dispersion

Steinbacher, Matej; Steinbacher, Matjaz; Steinbacher, Mitja - 2009

In the paper we test a homogenous agent version of the Montgomery's (1991) non-cooperative wage posting model. The inclusion of intrinsic costs, related to the uncertainty when changing the alternative agents are already using, alters the outcome of the model in two respects: firstly, it...

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A Repeated Game Heterogeneous-Agent Wage-Posting Model

Steinbacher, Matej; Steinbacher, Matjaz; Steinbacher, Mitja - 2009

In the paper, we simulate a heterogeneous-agent version of the wage-posting model as derived by Montgomery (1991) with homogeneous workers and differently-productive employers. Wage policy of particular employer is positively correlated with employer’s productivity level and the wage policy of...

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