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Divorce and Gold Coins: A Case Study of Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2018

The increasing divorce rate has become a major social concern for policy makers in the Islamic government of Iran. The … in Iran. Dowries (Mehrieh) are usually in the form of gold coin and a wife has a legal right to them upon both parties … and divorce rate for the case of Iran over the period 1980-2014. Controlling for other factors, our regression results …

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The influence of adult children from "generation Y" on the shopping decisions of their parents

Matuszewska, Anita - In: Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging … (2017) 1, pp. 63-71

Family is one of the most important socio-cultural factors which reflects on a man's behavior. Contemporarily, young people demonstrate much more market activity. Except for doing shopping, they also play roles of advisors who influence choices of individual members of households. Most often, in...

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From pandemics to portfolios: Long-term impacts of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak on household investment choices

Guo, Naijia; Leung, Ka Yui; Zhang, Shumeng - 2025

This study examines how experiencing a pandemic affects household investment behaviors. By leveraging cross-state variations in the H1N1 mortality rate in 2009, our difference-in-differences analysis reveals interesting findings. Although the pandemic does not significantly affect stock market...

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The anatomy of marital happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2025

Since 1972, the General Social Survey has periodically asked whether people are happy with Yes, Maybe or No type answers. Here I use a net "happiness" measure, which is percentage Yes less percentage No with Maybe treated as zero. Average happiness is around +20 on this scale for all respondents...

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The Child Quantity–Quality Trade-off

Guo, Rufei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2022

This chapter reviews the growing literature on the child quantity–quality (QQ) trade-off. During the transition from the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and human capital investment per child increases. Motivated...

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Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2022

Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined methodology of propensity score matching and fixed effects and instrumental variable...

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Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples

Oreffice, Sonia; Sansone, Dario - 2022

We assess the role of gender-conforming social norms in household decision-making and gender inequalities in the labor market with a parsimonious household model that endogenizes commuting time. Using the American Community Survey 2008-2019, we test the model predictions and find that women in...

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Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use and Learning Loss during COVID-19

Asadullah, Niaz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita - 2022

COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural...

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Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...

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Till Debt Do Us Part: Strategic Divorces and a Test of Moral Hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochguertel, Stefan; … - 2022

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

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