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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
Rosenzweig, Mark; Munshi, Kaivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members. Unique panel data...
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Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo De; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family. Using household panel data from the Progresa program in rural Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of heads and spouses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012916
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Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status
Watson, Tara; McLanahan, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that people are more likely to marry when their incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829822
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Wages, Violence and Health in the Household
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household bargaining model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829935
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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic variation in the language of "Comstock" statutes,...
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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Effects of Mental Health on Couple Relationship Status
Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We exploit the occurrence of postpartum depression (PPD), which has a random component according to the medical community, to estimate causal effects of a salient form of mental illness on couples' relationship status. We estimate single-equation models as well as bivariate probit models that...
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Adoptive Expectations: Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Morck, Randall; Mehrotra, Vikas; Shim, Jungwook; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing...
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America's settling down: How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930
Cvrcek, Tomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since …. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their …
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