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Weather shocks, age of marriage and the direction of marriage payments

Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016

In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i … these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but opposite effects on the early marriage hazard in the two regions: in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …

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Does the balance of power within a family matter? : the case of the retirement equity act

Aura, Saku - 2002

change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a …

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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money

Lee, Jungmin - 2021

The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...

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Does the Balance of Power within a Family Matter? The Case of the Retirement Equity Act

Aura, Saku - 2021

change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions both from a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320498

Life Cycle of the Disability Term

Sampson, Kathryn A. - 2013

Defining disability, from youth to old age, is a lesson in legislative priorities and incentive systems that are below the radar screen. This poster presentation provides a visual illustration of the life cycle of the concept of disability, over an average life span. The time line begins when a...

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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021

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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya

Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan - 2010

The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally … the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported …-marital partners than single men, but this regression does not account for selective entry into marriage. Indeed, the marriage effect …

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Fatter Attraction : Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2011

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have …

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

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