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Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...
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(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …
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Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … predicts that both information and discussion should raise enrollment, and nearly all intra-household experts we surveyed gave … by as much as 50%. We sketch an alternative model in which interventions that make household decision-making more joint …
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An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...
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largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …
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largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …
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largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …
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a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show …
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The rise in per-capita labor over the last 30 years is difficult to explain in a standard macroeconomic model because rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband's leisure. This paper argues that home production and bargaining are both essential for understanding these...
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that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior in both industrial and developing economies …
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