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East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894094
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912775
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment — sibling gender composition — affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913362
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670967
We find differential rates of cohabitation with adult relatives as well as differential impacts of that cohabitation on the probability of employment for married female immigrants across regions of origin. This suggests that traditions and/or cultural determinants of family structure influence...
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women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We … observed minority-majority differences in behavior can be attributed to differences in labor market opportunities, marriage …
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This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954027
labor force participation or has any impact on local marriage and fertility patterns. While our results are consistent with …
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